Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence; Eden, Emily, 1797-1869 -- Correspondence
[337] Daughter of the 3rd Duke of Portland. She married the Hon. Charles
Greville.
[338] Lady Caroline Murray; died in 1819.
[339] 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.
[341] The marriage came on again and Lord Edward married in July 1830
Elizabeth Mellish.
[342] Mr. Villiers was giving up his post in Dublin.
[343] The other Miss Mellish married in 1834 Richard, Earl of Glengall.
[344] The Henry Barings.
[345] Lady Bath died May 1, 1830.
[346] She was the daughter of Dr. Shipley, Dean of St. Asaph.
[347] William I., King of Würtemburg.
[348] George IV. died on June 26, 1830.
[349] Miss Villiers’ brother.
[350] Henry Johnes Eden, R.N., died aged twenty-three.
[351] Lady Georgiana Lennox married her cousin, Hon. W. FitzGerald de
Roos, in 1824.
[352] Maria Copley.
[353] Lady Francis Leveson.
[354] Alice, married in 1854 George, 3rd Earl of Strafford.
[355] Paul Antony, Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador in London
from 1830 to 1838.
[356] Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, the French Ambassador in
London. The Duchesse de Dino was his niece.
[357] Lord Auckland was President of the Board of Trade in 1830.
[358] Lord Brougham. He had just become Lord Chancellor in Lord Grey’s
Ministry, and remained in office till 1834.
[359] Lady Goderich.
[360] Alderman Key, Lord Mayor.
[361] _Destiny; or the Chief’s Daughter_, by Susan Ferrier, had just
been published.
[362] Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, sixth son of George III.
[363] Prime Minister.
[364] Daniel O’Connell, the Irish politician.
[365] Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
[366] Teresa Gamba, Countess Guiccioli. She lived with Byron till he
left for Greece, and one of her brothers accompanied him on the
expedition.
[367] Lord John Russell’s Reform Bill, having been passed by the
Commons, was thrown out by the Lords, October 7, 1831.
[368] Daughter of Lord Grantham; she married in 1833 Lord Fordwich (6th
Earl Cowper).
[369] Lord Grantham had a house there.
[370] Hon. Edward Villiers married in 1835 Hon. Elizabeth Liddell.
[371] Henry John Temple. Viscount Palmerston at this time was Foreign
Secretary.
[372] Miss Eden was thirty-five.
[373] Lord Melbourne. Lady Cowper was his sister.
[374] Sir Frederick Lamb, 3rd Viscount Melbourne and Baron Beauvale
(1782-1853).
[375] Lieut.-Colonel Francis Russell, son of Lord William Russell.
[376] Thomas Villiers Lister was born on May 7, 1832. He was
Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1873.
[377] The allusion is to _Arlington_, a novel by the author of _Granby_
[T. H. Lister]. It was published in 1832.
[378] The Reform Bill was carried (second reading) in the House of Lords
on April 14 by a majority of nine.
[379] Maria Copley married, August 9, 1832, Henry George, Viscount
Howick (Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1846-52).
[380] Sir Joseph Copley.
[381] Author of the _Journals_.
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