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The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) Volume 2 (of 2)
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845 -- Diaries
[48] Etienne Charles Loménie de Brienne (1727–1794), who was appointed
to succeed Calonne as Finance Minister in 1787. Louis XVI. appointed
him Archbishop of Sens the following year, when he had proved himself
no greater success as Minister than his predecessor. He was replaced by
Necker.
[49] James Scarlett (1769–1844), second son of Robert Scarlett, Esq.,
of Jamaica. He was called to the Bar in 1791, and became a King’s
Counsel in 1816. After an unsuccessful attempt in 1812 he entered
Parliament as a Whig in 1819, and was made Attorney-General by Canning
in 1827. He resigned this post the following year, but considering
himself ill-used by his party in 1830, joined the Tories, and was by
them appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1834. He retained
the post until the time of his death. He was created Lord Abinger
in 1835. He married, first, in 1792, Louisa Henrietta, daughter of
Peter Campbell, Esq., of Kilmory, co. Argyll; and secondly, in 1843,
Elizabeth, daughter of Lee Steere, Esq., and widow of Rev. Henry John
Ridley.
[50] Harvey Christian Combe, Lord Mayor of London for year ending
November 9, 1800.
[51] Probably William, second son of Hon. George Dalrymple, of
Dalmahoy, who became a general officer and Lieut.-Governor of Chelsea
Hospital. He died in 1807, and left a son who succeeded as seventh Earl
of Stair.
[52] Sir Gilbert Affleck’s house, near Newmarket.
[53] See _Annual Register_ for 1800, State Papers, p. 203.
[54] _St. Leon_, a novel.
[55] Duchess of Leinster.
[56] William Gifford (1756–1826), a friend of Canning and editor of the
_Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner_. He was subsequently editor of
the _Quarterly Review_ from its commencement in 1809 until 1824.
[57] Charles Nevison, Viscount Andover (1775–1800), eldest son of
John, fifteenth Earl of Suffolk. He married, in 1796, Jane Elizabeth,
daughter of Thomas William Coke, afterwards created Earl of Leicester.
[58] Lords Morpeth, Granville Leveson-Gower, Boringdon, Duke of
Bedford.
[59] Don Raymond della Massa.
[60] Hon. Charles Kinnaird (1780–1826), eldest son of George, seventh
Baron Kinnaird. He succeeded his father in 1805, and married the
following year Lady Olivia Fitzgerald, youngest daughter of William
Robert, second Duke of Leinster. He sat in the House of Commons for
Leominster from 1802 to 1805.
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