[299] 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. [302] Son of the 3rd Lord Grantham. [303] Lord Auckland’s salary as Auditor of Greenwich was £600, with coals and candles. [304] The present Vicarage of Greenwich. [305] William Bingham Baring; he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Ashburton in 1848. [306] Lady Lucy Cavendish-Bentinck married, 1828, Lord Howard de Walden. [307] 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. [309] William Miller, general in Peruvian Army. [310] Elizabeth, daughter of William Lock, married, 1822, Joseph, 3rd Lord Wallscourt. [311] The Orange Association. [312] Archibald, 2nd Earl of Gosford; married, 1805, Miss Mary Sparrow. [313] Du Pré, 2nd Earl of Caledon; married, 1811, Catherine, daughter of 3rd Earl of Hardwicke. [314] 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. [318] Juliana, daughter of Mr. Howard of Glossop. [319] Julia (married in 1833 Sir S. Brooke-Pechell) and Catherine Anne. [320] Eliza Farren, the actress. [321] Frederick Robinson was only nineteen at this time. [322] Lord Auckland was made a Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital in 1829. [323] On the marriage of her daughter, Lady Charlotte Thynne, to the Duke of Buccleuch. She died in 1895, aged eighty-four. [324] 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. [326] Sir Francis Chantrey, the sculptor. [327] 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. [332] 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. [334] Crichel, Wimborne, Dorset, the Sturts’ place. [335] Alexander Montagu, died aged two, in 1830. [336] Saltram, Devon, belonged to Lord Morley, Miss Villiers’ uncle.