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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
[290] Philip, third Earl of Hardwicke (1757–1834), son of the
Right Hon. Charles Yorke. He succeeded his uncle in 1790, and was
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland from 1801 to 1806.
[291] Lord Hardwicke’s half-brother, Charles Philip Yorke (1764–1834).
He was Secretary at War, 1801–3; Home Secretary, 1803–4; and First Lord
of the Admiralty, 1810–11.
[292] March 18.
[293] Charles Manners-Sutton (1755–1828), raised to the See of
Canterbury in 1805, and father of Viscount Canterbury (for many years
Speaker of the House of Commons).
[294] Lord Auckland was President of the Board of Trade. His letter is
printed in _Lord Auckland’s Journal and Correspondence_, iv. 300.
[295] Charles William, Viscount Milton (1786–1857), only son of
William, fourth Earl Fitzwilliam, on whose death in 1833 Lord Milton
succeeded to the titles. He remained member for Yorkshire until 1831.
[296] The figures were: Wilberforce 11,806, Milton 11,177, Lascelles
10,989, the two first being therefore returned. Wilberforce’s
expenses, after many of his supporters had paid their own, amounted
to 28,600_l._, while those of his opponents were reckoned to be
200,000_l._ (_Dictionary of Nat. Biog._).
[297] Mary Elizabeth, born in 1806. She married, in 1830, Thomas
Atherton, third Baron Lilford, and died in 1891.
[298] Peter Leopold Louis Francis Nassau, fifth Earl Cowper
(1778–1837), who succeeded his brother in 1799. He married, in 1805,
Amelia, daughter of Peniston, first Viscount Melbourne. After Lord
Cowper’s death she married Lord Palmerston in 1839.
[299] The Hon. Sir Arthur Paget (1771–1840), second son of Henry, first
Earl of Uxbridge. He held various diplomatic posts, and was appointed,
in 1807, Ambassador to the Porte. He retired from the service two years
later.
[300] David Richard Morier (1784–1877), son of Isaac Morier,
Consul-General of the Levant Company at Constantinople. Commencing at
the age of twenty, he held various diplomatic posts in the East, was
secretary to Lord Castlereagh at Châtillon, &c., and was for many years
Minister at Berne.
[301] Mr. Adam brought a motion in the House of Commons on July 2,
1807, in defence of the warrant for a pension to the Scotch Judge,
Lord Cullen, of 400_l._ a year, with a reversion of 200_l._
for life to his wife. He argued that it was fair, if a judge was not
sufficiently well off to keep up his position. Lord Cullen was devoting
two-thirds of his income to pay his father’s debts.
[302] It was burnt in 1831 by the mob, on account of the opposition of
its owner to the Reform Act.
[303] ‘Conversation’ Sharp.
[304] The _History of Brazil_ was the only part published.
[305] George William, sixth Duke of Argyll (1766–1839), who succeeded
his father in 1806. He married, in 1810, Caroline Elizabeth, daughter
of George, fourth Earl of Jersey, and previously wife of the Earl of
Uxbridge (afterwards Marquess of Anglesey), whom she divorced.
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