Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence; Eden, Emily, 1797-1869 -- Correspondence
[31] Sir George Onesiphorus Paul (1746-1820). “One of the prettiest
places” was Hill House, Woodchester, Gloucestershire.
[32] Juliana, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. W. Digby, Dean of Durham.
[33] Charles Hanbury, a diplomatist and writer; he took the name of
Williams in 1729. He was knighted in 1744.
[34] Lady Susan Fox-Strangways married Mr. O’Brien, a handsome young
actor, in 1764.
[35] Miss Eden’s sister Mary, aged twenty-two, and her brother Lord
Auckland, were staying at Melbury, Dorchester, with Lord Ilchester.
[36] Lady Theresa Strangways, married in 1837 9th Lord Digby.
[37] Miss Grant, Lady Ilchester’s mother.
[38] Miss Eden’s nephew, aged ten.
[39] Sir G. Paul was only sixty-eight years old.
[40] Morton and Bob, Miss Eden’s two brothers.
[41] Lord Auckland was auditor of Greenwich Hospital.
[42] Dropmore belonged to William Wyndham, Lord Grenville.
[43] The Corn Law of 1815 which closed the ports to the importation of
foreign grain till the prices reached eighty shillings a quarter.
[44] Miss Eden’s brother-in-law.
[45] The battle of Waterloo had been fought on the 18th June.
[46] Magdalene, daughter of Sir J. Hall, Bart., married Sir William Howe
Delancey, K.C.B., in March or April 1815. He was mortally wounded at
Waterloo.
[47] William, 15th Earl of Erroll.
[48] George Elliot, son of the first Earl of Minto; married in 1810
Eliza Cecilia, daughter of James Ness of Osgodby, York. He commanded the
Chinese Expedition in 1840.
[49] This was a party badge.
[50] Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, married, 1807, Jean, daughter of James
Wedderburn Colvile. He was Lady Delancey’s uncle.
[51] Sir William Delancey died in a cottage in the village of Mont St.
Jean a week after he was wounded. His wife wrote a description of his
death, which was published in 1906: _A Week at Waterloo in_ 1815, edited
by Major B. R. Ward.
[52] Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, married in 1845 Hon. James Kenneth Howard.
[53] The Austrian Ambassador died on July 4.
[54] Lady Delancey married, secondly, in 1819, Captain H. Harvey.
[55] Thomas Heaphy, 1775-1835. He painted on the spot Wellington and his
officers before an action in the Peninsular War.
[56] Lady Katherine Douglas, sister of Lord Selkirk, married in July
1815 John Halkett, Governor of the Bahamas.
[57] The tutor.
[58] Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[59] Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister. He
married Louisa Theodosia, daughter of the Bishop of Derry (Earl of
Bristol).
[60] Lady Sarah Robinson, Lady Buckinghamshire’s step-daughter.
[61] Miss Eden’s sister, Mrs. Colvile.
[62] 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.
[63] Eastcombe, Charlton, Kent (Lady Buckinghamshire’s house).
[64] Hon. Charlotte Eden, married in 1800 Lord Frances Godolphin
Osborne; created Baron Godolphin in 1832.
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