Boyle, Mrs Carolina Amelia, her appearance, 10;
appointed bed-chamber woman to Queen Charlotte, 30
—— Caroline, 3, 4_n_;
her appearance, 11;
appointed maid of honour to Queen Adelaide, 101
—— Cavendish Spencer, his birth, 4;
at Charterhouse, 36;
his engagement, 175;
in the West Indies, 178;
death, 241;
appointed Governor of the Militia Prison at Weedon, 256;
at Ashridge, 280
—— Charles John, 3, 4_n_;
his appearance, 11;
sketches of him, 12;
_attaché_ at the English Legation, Turin, 104;
at Munich, 187;
engagement, 205;
marriage, 206;
appointment at the Cape of Good Hope, 225
—— Charlotte, 3;
her death, 12;
burial-place, 13;
epitaph, 13
—— Vice-Admiral The Hon. Sir Courtenay, 4;
enters the Navy, 5;
letter from Lord Nelson, 6;
shipwrecked in Egypt, 7;
taken prisoner by the French, 7;
letter to his wife, 8;
return, 9;
Commissioner at Sheerness Dockyard, 15;
appointment at the Navy Board, 30;
punctuality, 37;
illness, 101;
decorated with the Guelphic and Hanoverian Order, 106;
death, 170
—— Sir Courtenay Edmund, 36_n_
—— Courtenay Edmund William, 3, 4_n_;
his first cruise, 10;
character, 10;
marriage, 11, 158
—— Courtenay, 213, 257
—— Lady Lucy, 56_n_
—— Mary Louisa, her birth, 1, 3, 4_n_;
appearance and height, 2;
light-heartedness, 2;
brothers and sisters, 3, 10-13;
parents, 4;
love of heraldry, 4;
ancestry, 5;
life at Sheerness, 15-30;
feats of horsemanship, 16, 61, 95, 182;
retainers, 16-19;
juvenile flirtations, 19-22;
fondness for Shakespeare’s plays, 22;
on the one-legged race, 23;
her first Play, 25-28;
at Somerset House, 30-39;
early dramatic recollections, 33-35;
visits to the Royal Academy, 35;
to the Charterhouse, 36;
on the coronation of George IV., 37-39;
fondness for Sir W. Scott’s books, 38, 78;
life at Hampton Court, 39-50;
on the officials, 44-46;
heroic butcher boy, 46-48;
the thrush, 48-50;
at Marston Bigot, 51;
Balls Park, 55;
number of cousins, 56;
Wigan Rectory, 56;
taming a wolf-dog, 56;
Cowdray Park, 57;
the bathing fatality, 59;
“ghost story,” 60;
walk with “Courage,” 61;
political views, 62;
Midgham House, 64;
Cottage, 65;
on the eccentricities of Illidge, 66, 70-72;
on Mrs Garrick 67-70;
members of the household, 73-79;
at Brighton, 80;
_tableaux_, 82, 256;
at school, 84;
music and dancing lessons, 85;
dances at Dr Everard’s school, 87;
début, 88;
dramatic representation, 89;
leaves school, 91;
at Greystoke Castle, 92-96;
theatricals, 95, 147-152, 212, 227, 232, 251, 256, 271;
at Corby Castle, 96;
the haunted chamber, 96;
visit to Lord Southampton, 97;
on the conspiracy to see Fanny Kemble, 98;
accession of William IV., 99;
illness of her father, 101;
arrangements for travelling, 103;
at Turin, 104;
Genoa, 104-114;
riding parties, 105;
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