Authors, English -- 19th century -- Correspondence; Eden, Emily, 1797-1869 -- Correspondence
[464] Sir Willoughby Cotton commanded a Division in the Afghan War,
1838-1839.
[465] Lady Theresa’s sister-in-law died in November 1838. She was the
daughter of Mr. Lister of Armitage Park, widow of Thomas, 2nd Lord
Ribblesdale; and married, secondly, Lord John Russell.
[466] Lord John Russell had four step-children: Thomas, 3rd Baron
Ribblesdale, who married Emma, daughter of Colonel W. Mure of Caldwell,
M.P.; Adelaide married in 1847 Maurice Drummond; Isabella married in
1853 Rev. W. Warburton; Elizabeth married in 1862 Sir W. Melvill.
[467] George Villiers was given a G.C.B. in 1837, and succeeded his
uncle as 4th Earl of Clarendon, 1838. He was Minister at Madrid,
1833-1838.
[468] Villiers Lister, aged seven. He became Under-Secretary for Foreign
Affairs in 1873.
[469] Miss Eden describes thus Runjeet Singh’s appearance in her
letters. _Up the Country_: “He is exactly like an old mouse, with grey
whiskers and one eye.”
[470] Son of Runjeet Singh.
[471] Through her brother George succeeding as Earl of Clarendon.
[472] Lord Clarendon married in 1839 Lady Katherine Barham; she was a
daughter of Lord Verulam and widow of John Barham.
[473] Lady Harriet Villiers, daughter of 3rd Earl of Clarendon, died
unmarried, January 20, 1835.
[474] Lady Charlotte Jenkinson, daughter of 1st Earl of Liverpool.
[475] Lord Henry’s sister, who married the Hon. Charles Cavendish, 1st
Lord Chesham.
[476] She married, 1870, Mr. Borthwick, afterwards Lord Glenesk.
[477] John Charles, 3rd Earl of Clarendon; married in 1792 Maria,
daughter of Admiral Hon. John Forbes, brother of Lord Granard.
[478] John, 13th Lord Elphinstone (1782-1842). He was in command of the
army which met with disaster in Afghanistan in 1841.
[479] George Russell Clerk, British Envoy at Lahore, K.C.B. in 1848.
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India in 1858.
[480] John Russell Colvin. He married Miss Sneyd in 1827.
[481] Subsequently Sir Auckland Colvin, K.C.S.I., 1838-1908
(Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces).
[482] Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792-1878), author of _Origin of the Sikh
Power in the Punjab_, and _Political Life of Maharaja Runjeet Singh_.
[483] Viscount Jocelyn, born 1816; married 1841 Lady Frances Elizabeth
Cowper, daughter of 5th Earl Cowper.
[484] Son of Runjeet Singh.
[485] Hook’s _Births, Marriages, and Deaths_ was published in 1839.
[486] Sir Jasper Nicolls, Commander-in-Chief in Bengal. He died in 1849.
[487] Lady Campbell’s son.
[488] Sir Henry Fane, Commander-in-Chief.
[489] Colonel Henry Boys Harvey.
[490] Pamela married the Rev. C. Stanford in 1841. She died in 1859.
[491] Married in 1847 T. H. Preston.
[492] Guy Colin. He died in 1853 at Singapore, aged twenty-nine.
[493] Lady Lansdowne’s sister, Lady Elizabeth Feilding, died in March
1840.
[494] Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice married in 1845 the Hon. James Kenneth
Howard.
[495] Frederic Campbell, born in 1838.
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