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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.
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Eastcombe, Charlton, Kent (Lady Buckinghamshire’s house).
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Hon. Charlotte Eden, married in 1800 Lord Frances Godolphin Osborne; created Baron Godolphin in 1832.
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Lady Henrietta Cole, married in 1805 Thomas Philip, 3rd Lord Grantham; the Granthams had a house at Putney.
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Newby Hall, near Ripon, belonging to Lord Grantham.
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John, Viscount Sydney, married in 1832 Lady E. Paget.
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Lady Grantham’s niece.
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Lady Bucks was staying with her niece, Lady Francis Osborne.
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The daughters of George Markham, Dean of York.
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James Robert Graham, who became Sir J. Graham, Bart., of Netherby, in 1824.
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Studley Royal, Ripon.
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Lord Grantham’s elder daughter, married in 1833 Lord Fordwich (6th Earl Cowper).
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Frederick William Robinson, born 1810, and died aged twenty-one.
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Mary Robinson, married Henry Vyner in 1832.
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Anne, daughter of Richard Huck Saunders, wife of 2nd Viscount Melville.
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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.”
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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.
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John Cam Hobhouse, afterwards Lord Broughton. He lost this election.
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Hon. George Lamb was standing for Westminster. He was a brother of Lord Melbourne.
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Mr. James Graham stood as a Whig for Hull and was successful at the General Election of 1818.
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Sons of Henry, 2nd Earl of Harewood.
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Brother of the 1st Earl Brownlow.
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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.
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Isabella, daughter of 4th Viscount Torrington, married, 1794, 2nd Marquess of Bath.
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Her eldest son. He married in 1820 Miss Harriet Robins.
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Lady Elizabeth Thynne, married in 1816 John Frederick Campbell (Earl Cawdor).
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Lady Louisa Thynne, married in 1823 Henry, 3rd Earl of Harewood.
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Third Earl of Ilchester, married in 1812 Caroline, daughter of Lord George Murray. She died January 8, 1819, leaving four children.
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Pamela FitzGerald, daughter of Lord and Lady Edward FitzGerald.
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Lady Sophia FitzGerald, born in 1762.
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Lucy FitzGerald, her sister.
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Edward FitzGerald, her brother. He married in 1827 Jane, daughter of Sir John Dean Paul, Bart.
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Right Hon. William Peel; married Jane, daughter of 2nd Earl Mountcashell, in 1819.
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Elizabeth FitzClarence, sister of 1st Earl of Munster. She married in 1820 the 16th Earl of Erroll.
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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.
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Mr. Colvile, Miss Eden’s brother-in-law, lived at Langley.
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Lady Sophia FitzGerald.
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Lord Auckland.
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Lord Henry FitzGerald married in 1791 Charlotte, Baroness de Roos.
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Susan, daughter of 1st Marquess of Stafford; married in 1795 1st Earl of Harrowby.
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Lady Harrowby’s daughter, who married Viscount Ebrington in 1817.
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Daughters of the last Earl of Bellamont.
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William, 3rd Earl of Mansfield, married in 1797 Frederica, daughter of Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York.
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William Stewart Rose, author of A History of the Late War.
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Her sister.
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Lord Cahir, created Earl of Glengall in 1816; he died in 1819.
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Hannah More (1745-1833), writer of many religious works.
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Peterloo; an open-air meeting held in St. Peter’s Fields at Manchester by Mr. Hunt.
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Lord Eldon.
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Required in the proceedings for the repeal in 1819 of the attainder of her father, Lord Edward FitzGerald.
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Belonging to Colonel Vansittart, who married Caroline Eden. They had thirteen children or more.
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Miss Eden’s cook.
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Second husband of the Duchess of Leinster.
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Colonel Edward Drummond.
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Lady Louisa Fox-Strangways, daughter of Lord Ilchester.
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Lord Lansdowne.
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Lady Lansdowne.
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Lord Kerry, aged eight.
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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.
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Elizabeth Vassall, a Jamaica heiress, married first Sir Godfrey Webster, who divorced her, and, secondly, Henry, 3rd Baron Holland.
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Georgiana, daughter of the Duke of Gordon, married John, 6th Duke of Bedford.
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James Abercromby, M.P. for Calne; he was Speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839, when he was created Lord Dunfermline.
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George the Third died January 29, 1820.
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Lucy FitzGerald, her sister.
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Woburn Abbey in Bedfordshire.
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Middleton Park, belonging to Lord Jersey.
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Lady Lansdowne’s half-brother (4th Earl of Ilchester).
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Giles Digby Robert Fox-Strangways, born in 1798.
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Lady Grantham.
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Thomas Matthews the actor.
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Mrs. Drummond’s daughter, Theresa, was born May 5, 1820.
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Lady Mary FitzGerald was Pamela’s first cousin; she married Sir Charles Ross in 1799.
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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.
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Near Watford, belonging to Lord Clarendon.
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Lord Grantham’s house in Lincolnshire.
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Lady Sarah Sophia Fane, daughter of Lord Westmoreland, married in 1804 5th Earl of Jersey.
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The Duchess of York died August 6, 1820.
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Lady Harriet Cavendish, married in 1809 Lord Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville.
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Lady Elizabeth Thynne married in 1816 Lord Cawdor. They had seven children.
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Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, Bart. He married in 1817 Frances Burgoyne, who died the following year when her child Fanny was born.
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Right Hon. Hugh Elliot, Governor of Madras in 1814 to 1820, brother of the 1st Earl of Minto, Governor-General of India.
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Second Marquess of Bute, married, 1818, Maria, daughter of 3rd Earl of Guildford.
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Lord Bute’s home.
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Her maid.
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Sir Gregory Way, Deputy Adjutant-General in N.B.
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Miss Christina Campbell, aged seventy-five.
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Miss Eden’s doctor.
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Caroline, married, 1831, 3rd Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe. Horatia, married, 1850, T. Gaisford.
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Lady Elizabeth Feilding.
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Private Secretary to Sir Robert Peel.
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Lady Jane Paget’s engagement to Mr. Ball was broken off.
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The 3rd Duke of Leinster.
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Lady Mary FitzGerald, married in 1799 Sir Charles Ross.
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Cecilia, daughter of 2nd Duke of Leinster, married Thomas, 3rd Baron Foley.
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Hon. William de Roos.
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Lady Charlotte FitzGerald, married in 1789 Joseph Strutt, M.P.
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The Coronation of George IV., July 19, 1821.
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Lord Leitrim’s daughters.
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Daughters of Joseph Strutt of Terling.
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Robert Eden, Miss Eden’s brother.
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For the death of Queen Caroline on August 7, 1821.
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Georgiana, daughter of 4th Duke of Gordon, married in 1803 John, 6th Duke of Bedford.
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Lady Maria Fane married Lord Duncannon, 1805, sister to Lady Jersey.
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Daughter of Lord W. Russell.
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He was then sixty-five.
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Pamela, Lady Edward FitzGerald.
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Daughter of 9th Earl of Kinnoull, married Henry Drummond of Albury Park.
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Lady Campbell’s son Edward was born October 25, 1822.
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Lady Worcester died May 11, 1821. Lord Worcester married, secondly, June 29, 1822, Emily, daughter of Charles Culling Smith.
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He was the son of Charles Wall, who had married Miss Harriet Baring in 1790.
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Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, built by William Beckford.
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Ferdinand VII. of Spain.
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Mrs. Colvile had seventeen children.
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Her daughter Pamela.
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Daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst.
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Daughter of the Hon. George Napier.
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Lady Emily Hobart, married in 1794 Viscount Castlereagh. He committed suicide, August 12, 1822, at his house, North Cray, in Kent.
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Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Prebendary of Durham, brother of 1st Duke of Wellington.
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Georgina married in 1827 Rev. G. Darby St. Quintin.
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Mary married in 1836 Henry, 4th Earl Cadogan.
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Sir William Parry, the Arctic explorer.
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Lady Sarah Robinson (Lady Goderich).
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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.
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Miss Eden’s brother, Rector of Eyam in Derbyshire.
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Hon. William de Roos married, June 7, Lady Georgina Lennox.
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Lord Henry FitzGerald.
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William Hayley. His Memoirs were published in 1823.
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Married in 1832 Lord Howick.
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Eleanor died, aged sixteen, in November 1824.
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Lady Mary Osborne, daughter of 5th Duke of Leeds, married Thomas, 2nd Earl of Chichester, 1801.
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George Godolphin Osborne (8th Duke of Leeds), married, 1824, Harriet Stewart.
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Miss St. Jules, married, 1809, Hon. G. Lamb.
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William Spencer, 6th Duke of Devonshire.
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Lord Henry Frederick Thynne, afterwards 3rd Marquess of Bath, married, 1830, Harriet, daughter of 1st Lord Ashburton.
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Lieut. – Col. Richard Pepper Arden (Lord Alvanley).
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Mr. Baring Wall of Norman Court.
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Henry Eden (Admiral) married in 1849 Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. George Beresford.
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Sir J. Copley and Miss Copley.
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Rev. Robert Eden, married in September Mary Hurt of Alderwasley, Derbyshire.
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Lady Francis Osborne (Miss Eden’s sister).
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Charlotte Godolphin Osborne, married in 1829 Sir Theodore Brinkman.
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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.
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Near Hertford.
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George Russell, son of Lord W. Russell, died September 15, 1825.
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Elizabeth, married, 1829, Lord Wriothesley Russell.
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Henry Greville, born 1801, son of Lady Charlotte and Charles Greville.
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Daughter of Lord Forester, married in 1830 General the Hon. George Anson.
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Miss Eden’s visit to Bowood.
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Pamela, aged five. She married Rev. Charles Stanford in 1841.
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The Hon. William FitzGerald de Roos.
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“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.
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Right Hon. F. J. Robinson, Chancellor of the Exchequer from January 1823 to April 1827.
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George Welbore Agar-Ellis, created Baron Dover in 1831.
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Lady Charlotte Cavendish Bentinck married Charles Greville.
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William Arden, 2nd Baron Alvanley, born 1789, died unmarried in 1849.
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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.
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The Tide-waiters waited for ships coming in on the flood-tides to collect duties.
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The Grange, Alresford, Hampshire, belonged to Mr. Alexander Baring.
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Lawrence Peel, married, 1822, Lady Jane Lennox, sister of Lady Georgina de Roos.
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“Captain Macheath” was bought by Lord Lansdowne for 500 guineas.
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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.
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Amelia, daughter of 1st Viscount Melbourne; married in 1805 5th Earl Cowper, and secondly, Lord Palmerston in 1839.
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Sir Gore Ouseley, Ambassador to Persia in 1812, married Harriet, daughter of John Whitelocke. Their eldest daughter was born in 1807.
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By Madame de Staël.
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By Ludovic Vitet.
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Lady Elizabeth Thynne, who married Lord Cawdor in 1816, and lived at Stackpole, Pembrokeshire.
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Thomas Moore, the poet.
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Lena Eden, born September 26, 1826.
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Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
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Elinor Henrietta Victoria, only daughter of Mr. and Lady Sarah Robinson, died October 31, 1826, aged eleven, at Blackheath.
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The doctors.
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The illness of Mr. Robinson’s daughter.
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William Spencer, 6th Duke, British Envoy at the Coronation of the Czar Nicholas of Russia in 1826.
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Mr. Robinson’s brother.
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In Lincolnshire.
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Probably Pelham Warren, physician.
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A doctor.
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Lord Grantham’s daughters (Mr. Robinson’s nieces).
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Lord Auckland’s powder-horn had blown up in his hand as he was loading his gun.
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Georgina, born at Calne in 1826, married in 1847 T. H. Preston.
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Lady Harriet Montagu, daughter of Lord Sandwich, married in 1823 W. B. Baring (2nd Lord Ashburton).
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Mr. Alexander Baring, 1st Lord Ashburton in 1835.
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Lady Francis Leveson (1st Lady Ellesmere).
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Mr. Canning, the Premier, had died on the 8th of August 1827. He was succeeded by Mr. Robinson (Lord Goderich).
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Mary, daughter of Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P., married, 1835, 4th Earl of Lisburne.
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Lady Edward FitzGerald.
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton had married Hannah Gurney, a sister of Elizabeth Fry. He worked for the abolition of slavery.
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Lord Henry FitzGerald’s house at Thames Ditton.
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Edward Law, 2nd Baron and 1st Earl of Ellenborough.
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Hon. Henry de Roos.
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Daughter of 3rd Earl of Mansfield; her mother was Frederica, daughter of Dr. Markham, Archbishop of York.
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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.
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William Sheen, of Christopher Alley, Lambeth, murdered his four-month-old step-son.
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Lady Cawdor.
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Lord Goderich had become Prime Minister at the beginning of August on the death of Mr. Canning.
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Mary Dulcibella, who married Richard Wellesley in 1850.
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Charles Greville (1794-1865), Clerk to the Privy Council.
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Lady Grantham’s daughter.
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William Lamb (2nd Viscount Melbourne), Irish Secretary.
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Miss Eliza Farren, the actress, married in 1797 Edward, 12th Earl of Derby. She died in 1829.
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Miss St. John Jeffrys of Blarney Castle, married the 1st Earl of Glengall in 1793.
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Sir Charles Doyle, Assistant Adjutant-General in Ireland.
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John Hely-Hutchinson, born 1757. In 1825, on the death of his brother, became 2nd Earl of Donoughmore. He died 1832.
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Mr. Brooke Greville.
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Lady Glengall’s only son (2nd Earl of Glengall).
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Aged seven.
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Lady Charlotte (married, 1835, Christopher Mansel Talbot, M.P.) and Lady Emily Butler.
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Lady Maria Fane, married, 1805, Viscount Duncannon; died 1834.
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Thomas, 2nd Earl of Kenmare, married, 1816, Augusta, daughter of Sir Robert Wilmot, Bart.
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John Liston, the comic actor.
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At Norman Court.
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Lady Goderich’s son was born October 1827. He became 1st Marquess of Ripon in 1871.
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Henry Luttrell (1770-1851); he wrote Advice to Julia; A Letter in Rhyme, etc.
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Harriet, sister of Mr. Henry Baring, married in 179 °Charles Wall.
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Lady Charlotte Thynne, aged eighteen; she married the Duke of Buccleuch in 1829.
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Lady Goderich.
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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.”
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Sister of the Portuguese politician.
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Brother of Pedro IV., King of Portugal. He caused himself to be elected King in 1828, but abdicated in 1834.
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Sir William Knighton, physician to George IV. and Private Secretary.
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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.
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Afterwards 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (the philanthropist).