Miss Eden's Letters
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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.