Miss Eden's Letters
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The vote of thanks was for his conduct in command of the English fleet at Navarino (October 20, 1827).
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Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons.
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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.
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Henry Goulburn (1784-1856). He was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the new Wellington ministry.
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Henry Labouchere, afterwards Lord Taunton (1798-1869). His mother was a sister of Alexander Baring (Lord Ashburton).
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Lord Goderich resigned three days later.
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Daughter of Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Prebendary of Durham; she married in 1827 Rev. George Darby St. Quintin.
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Elizabeth FitzClarence, sister of the 1st Earl of Munster.
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He had an appointment in Dublin connected with the Excise Boards.
293
Admiral Sir Graham Moore married Dora, daughter of Thomas Eden.
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Duke of Wellington.
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Miss Eden’s niece Caroline Vansittart married, July 1828, George Charles Mostyn of Kiddington, who became 6th Lord Vaux of Harrowden in 1838.
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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).
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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.
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Son of the 3rd Lord Grantham.
303
Lord Auckland’s salary as Auditor of Greenwich was £600, with coals and candles.
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The present Vicarage of Greenwich.
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William Bingham Baring; he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Ashburton in 1848.
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Lady Lucy Cavendish-Bentinck married, 1828, Lord Howard de Walden.
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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.
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William Miller, general in Peruvian Army.
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Elizabeth, daughter of William Lock, married, 1822, Joseph, 3rd Lord Wallscourt.
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The Orange Association.
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Archibald, 2nd Earl of Gosford; married, 1805, Miss Mary Sparrow.
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Du Pré, 2nd Earl of Caledon; married, 1811, Catherine, daughter of 3rd Earl of Hardwicke.
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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.
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Juliana, daughter of Mr. Howard of Glossop.
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Julia (married in 1833 Sir S. Brooke-Pechell) and Catherine Anne.
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Eliza Farren, the actress.
321
Frederick Robinson was only nineteen at this time.
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Lord Auckland was made a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital in 1829.
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On the marriage of her daughter, Lady Charlotte Thynne, to the Duke of Buccleuch. She died in 1895, aged eighty-four.
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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.
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Sir Francis Chantrey, the sculptor.
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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.
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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.
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Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset, the Sturts’ place.
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Alexander Montagu, died aged two, in 1830.
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Saltram, Devon, belonged to Lord Morley, Miss Villiers’ uncle.
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Daughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland. She married the Hon. Charles Greville.
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Lady Caroline Murray; died in 1819.
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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.
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The marriage came on again and Lord Edward married in July 1830 Elizabeth Mellish.
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Mr. Villiers was giving up his post in Dublin.
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The other Miss Mellish married in 1834 Richard, Earl of Glengall.
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The Henry Barings.
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Lady Bath died May 1, 1830.
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She was the daughter of Dr. Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph.
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William I., King of Würtemburg.
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George IV. died on June 26, 1830.
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Miss Villiers’ brother.
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Henry Johnes Eden, R.N., died aged twenty-three.
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Lady Georgiana Lennox married her cousin, Hon. W. FitzGerald de Roos, in 1824.
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Maria Copley.
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Lady Francis Leveson.
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Alice, married in 1854 George, 3rd Earl of Strafford.
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Paul Antony, Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador in London from 1830 to 1838.
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, the French Ambassador in London. The Duchesse de Dino was his niece.
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Lord Auckland was President of the Board of Trade in 1830.
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Lord Brougham. He had just become Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey’s Ministry, and remained in office till 1834.
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Lady Goderich.
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Alderman Key, Lord Mayor.
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Destiny; or the Chief’s Daughter, by Susan Ferrier, had just been published.
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Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George III.
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Prime Minister.
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Daniel O’Connell, the Irish politician.
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Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
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Teresa Gamba, Countess Guiccioli. She lived with Byron till he left for Greece, and one of her brothers accompanied him on the expedition.
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Lord John Russell’s Reform Bill, having been passed by the Commons, was thrown out by the Lords, October 7, 1831.
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Daughter of Lord Grantham; she married in 1833 Lord Fordwich (6th Earl Cowper).
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Lord Grantham had a house there.
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Hon. Edward Villiers married in 1835 Hon. Elizabeth Liddell.
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Henry John Temple. Viscount Palmerston at this time was Foreign Secretary.
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Miss Eden was thirty-five.
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Lord Melbourne. Lady Cowper was his sister.
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Sir Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne and Baron Beauvale (1782-1853).
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Lieut. – Colonel Francis Russell, son of Lord William Russell.
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Thomas Villiers Lister was born on May 7, 1832. He was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1873.
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The allusion is to Arlington, a novel by the author of Granby [T. H. Lister]. It was published in 1832.
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The Reform Bill was carried (second reading) in the House of Lords on April 14 by a majority of nine.
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Maria Copley married, August 9, 1832, Henry George, Viscount Howick (Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1846-52).
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Sir Joseph Copley.
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Author of the Journals.
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Taglioni married Count Gilbert de Voisins in 1832.
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Henry, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon, died 1833.
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Lord Melbourne was Home-Secretary. His wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, had died in 1828.
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On the death of his favourite brother, Hyde Villiers.
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Lady Francis Leveson, elder daughter of Charles Greville and Lady C. Greville.
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Thomas, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale, married, 1826, Adelaide, elder daughter of Thomas Lister of Armitage Park, and died December 1832.
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Morton Eden died in May 1821, aged twenty-six.
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Wife of Robert Arkwright of Stoke, grandson of Sir Richard Arkwright. Mrs. Arkwright was a daughter of Stephen Kemble.
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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.
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Emily, born September 4, 1833. She married Charles D. Ellis, nephew of the 1st Lord Howard de Walden.
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At Greenwich.
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Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice, Secretary of War.
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Chief Secretary.
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Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary at the Court of Madrid.
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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.”
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Isabella Colvile married, March 3, 1834, Mr. Marindin of Chesterton, Shropshire.
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Lord Wellesley, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1833-34.
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Lord Kerry married March 18, 1834, Lady Augusta Ponsonby.
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Lady Lansdowne lived till 1851.
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The Trade Unions procession took place on April 21. The agitation was brought about by Lord Althorp’s unpopular budget.
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Lord Auckland had been appointed First Lord of the Admiralty.
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Lord Grey resigned 1834.
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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.
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Mrs. Foster, wife of General Foster.
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Edward John Littleton, 1st Lord Hatherton (1791-1863). He became Chief Secretary for Ireland in May 1833.
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As Prime Minister.
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Earl Grey had resigned on rejection of Irish Coercion Bill in the Commons.
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Mrs. Ellice.
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He was now Prime Minister.
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Mrs. Norton.
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Lady Frances Egerton. Her son Granville was born in 1834.
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Major-General William Eden, son of Sir Robert Eden, Governor of Maryland.
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Her dog.
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Hannah More’s cottage in Somersetshire.
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William, 4th Earl of Albemarle, who married, secondly, Charlotte, daughter of Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart.
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Commander-in-Chief.
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The Houses of Parliament were burned, October 16, 1834.
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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.
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Colonial Secretary.
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Lord Brougham.
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Lord Althorp succeeded his father as Earl Spencer, November 10, 1834.
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Caroline Frances Eden, known as The Sunny Baby, born June 20, 1835, married, October 16, 1860, the Hon. Percy Scawen Wyndham.
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William Conyngham, 1st Baron Plunkett. Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1830.
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Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Chancellor of Ireland, 1834-35; created Lord St. Leonards in 1852 upon becoming Lord Chancellor of England.
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Georges Cuvier (1773-1838), the French naturalist.
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Lord Auckland was appointed Governor-General of India.
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Henry Edridge, a miniature painter; he died in 1821.
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At Carton, Maynooth, belonging to the Duke of Leinster.
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Henry, Baron de Roos.
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The servant.
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Her godchild [Mrs. Ellis].
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Provisional Governor-General, 1835-36.
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Hon. Cecilia de Roos married in December 1835 Hon. John Boyle.
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Lady Salisbury was burnt to death in November 1835.
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A lieutenant.
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Postal-runners.
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Chief Secretary for Ireland, 1835-1841.
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A novel, edited by Lady Morley, written by Mr. and Mrs. Lister.
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Sir Henry Fane (1778-1840). He was appointed Commander-in-Chief in India, 1835.
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As Registrar-General of births for England and Wales.
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Eden Lodge, Kensington Gore.
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Miss Payne, married in 1827 Lord Henry Gordon, son of the 9th Marquess of Huntly.
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Lady Mary Gordon married in 1822 Frederick Seymour.
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William Pitt, Earl Amherst (1773-1857). He was Governor-General of India from 1823 to 1826.
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Miss Eden’s maid.
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Lieutenant Thomas Waghorn, R.N., had been sent to Egypt to investigate the matter of communication between India and Egypt, via Suez.
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Lord Auckland and his sisters left Calcutta in October, for a long tour in the North-West Provinces.
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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.
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Mr. Torrens, Deputy Secretary.
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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.
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Lord Henry Gordon.
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The insurrection of French-Canadians under Louis Joseph Papineau.
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Charles Grant, Lord Glenelg, Colonial Secretary, 1834-1839.
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Dost Mahomed, Emir of Cabul (1798-1863). He was expelled by the British in 1840, but restored three years later.
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Envoy and Minister-Plenipotentiary to the Shah at Teheran.
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Captain Claude Wade, Agent for the Sutlej Frontier.
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Daughter of General Sir Henry Fane.
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The Court and Camp of Runjeet Singh, by the Hon. W. G. Osborne, published 1840.
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Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832), a French traveller and naturalist who explored British India and Thibet.
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Near Simla.
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Native bullock-carts.
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Box.
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Sir Willoughby Cotton commanded a Division in the Afghan War, 1838-1839.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Villiers Lister, aged seven. He became Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1873.
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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.”
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Son of Runjeet Singh.
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Through her brother George succeeding as Earl of Clarendon.
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Lord Clarendon married in 1839 Lady Katherine Barham; she was a daughter of Lord Verulam and widow of John Barham.
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Lady Harriet Villiers, daughter of 3rd Earl of Clarendon, died unmarried, January 20, 1835.
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Lady Charlotte Jenkinson, daughter of 1st Earl of Liverpool.
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Lord Henry’s sister, who married the Hon. Charles Cavendish, 1st Lord Chesham.
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She married, 1870, Mr. Borthwick, afterwards Lord Glenesk.
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John Charles, 3rd Earl of Clarendon; married in 1792 Maria, daughter of Admiral Hon. John Forbes, brother of Lord Granard.
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John, 13th Lord Elphinstone (1782-1842). He was in command of the army which met with disaster in Afghanistan in 1841.
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George Russell Clerk, British Envoy at Lahore, K.C.B. in 1848. Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India in 1858.
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John Russell Colvin. He married Miss Sneyd in 1827.
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Subsequently Sir Auckland Colvin, K.C.S.I., 1838-1908 (Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces).
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Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792-1878), author of Origin of the Sikh Power in the Punjab, and Political Life of Maharaja Runjeet Singh.
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Viscount Jocelyn, born 1816; married 1841 Lady Frances Elizabeth Cowper, daughter of 5th Earl Cowper.
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Son of Runjeet Singh.
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Hook’s Births, Marriages, and Deaths was published in 1839.
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Sir Jasper Nicolls, Commander-in-Chief in Bengal. He died in 1849.
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Lady Campbell’s son.
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Sir Henry Fane, Commander-in-Chief.
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Colonel Henry Boys Harvey.
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Pamela married the Rev. C. Stanford in 1841. She died in 1859.
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Married in 1847 T. H. Preston.
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Guy Colin. He died in 1853 at Singapore, aged twenty-nine.
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Lady Lansdowne’s sister, Lady Elizabeth Feilding, died in March 1840.
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Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice married in 1845 the Hon. James Kenneth Howard.
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Frederic Campbell, born in 1838.
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The British Army, under Sir John Keane, following the capture of Kandahar, carried Shah Shuja on to Ghazni, which fell July 21, 1839.
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Sir George Elliot, son of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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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.
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William George Keith Elphinstone died at Cabul in 1841, aged sixty.
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Sir Willoughby Cotton, Commander-in-Chief in Bombay, 1847-1850.
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Her maid.
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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.