Emily Eden - Miss Eden's Letters

Lady Theresa Strangways, married in 1837 9th Lord Digby.

Miss Grant, Lady Ilchester’s mother.

Miss Eden’s nephew, aged ten.

Sir G. Paul was only sixty-eight years old.

Morton and Bob, Miss Eden’s two brothers.

Lord Auckland was auditor of Greenwich Hospital.

Dropmore belonged to William Wyndham, Lord Grenville.

The Corn Law of 1815 which closed the ports to the importation of foreign grain till the prices reached eighty shillings a quarter.

Miss Eden’s brother-in-law.

The battle of Waterloo had been fought on the 18th June.

Magdalene, daughter of Sir J. Hall, Bart., married Sir William Howe Delancey, K.C.B., in March or April 1815. He was mortally wounded at Waterloo.

William, 15th Earl of Erroll.

George Elliot, son of the first Earl of Minto; married in 1810 Eliza Cecilia, daughter of James Ness of Osgodby, York. He commanded the Chinese Expedition in 1840.

This was a party badge.

Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, married, 1807, Jean, daughter of James Wedderburn Colvile. He was Lady Delancey’s uncle.

Sir William Delancey died in a cottage in the village of Mont St. Jean a week after he was wounded. His wife wrote a description of his death, which was published in 1906: A Week at Waterloo in 1815, edited by Major B. R. Ward.

Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, married in 1845 Hon. James Kenneth Howard.

The Austrian Ambassador died on July 4.

Lady Delancey married, secondly, in 1819, Captain H. Harvey.

Thomas Heaphy, 1775-1835. He painted on the spot Wellington and his officers before an action in the Peninsular War.

Lady Katherine Douglas, sister of Lord Selkirk, married in July 1815 John Halkett, Governor of the Bahamas.

The tutor.

Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister. He married Louisa Theodosia, daughter of the Bishop of Derry (Earl of Bristol).

Lady Sarah Robinson, Lady Buckinghamshire’s step-daughter.

Miss Eden’s sister, Mrs. Colvile.

Anne Isabella, only child of Sir Ralph Milbanke Noel, Bart. Married, January 2, 1810, Lord Byron. They had one daughter, Ada Augusta, born December 10, 1815, married in 1835 to William, Earl of Lovelace.

Eastcombe, Charlton, Kent (Lady Buckinghamshire’s house).

Hon. Charlotte Eden, married in 1800 Lord Frances Godolphin Osborne; created Baron Godolphin in 1832.

Lady Henrietta Cole, married in 1805 Thomas Philip, 3rd Lord Grantham; the Granthams had a house at Putney.

Newby Hall, near Ripon, belonging to Lord Grantham.

John, Viscount Sydney, married in 1832 Lady E. Paget.

Lady Grantham’s niece.

Lady Bucks was staying with her niece, Lady Francis Osborne.

The daughters of George Markham, Dean of York.

James Robert Graham, who became Sir J. Graham, Bart., of Netherby, in 1824.

Studley Royal, Ripon.

Lord Grantham’s elder daughter, married in 1833 Lord Fordwich (6th Earl Cowper).

Frederick William Robinson, born 1810, and died aged twenty-one.

Mary Robinson, married Henry Vyner in 1832.

Anne, daughter of Richard Huck Saunders, wife of 2nd Viscount Melville.

Sir Samuel Romilly, Solicitor-General, committed suicide on November 2, 1818, shortly after the death of his wife. According to Lord Lansdowne, “He was a stern, reserved sort of man, and she was the only person in the world to whom he wholly unbent and unbosomed himself. When he lost her, therefore, the very vent of his heart was stopped up.”

Charles Feilding, son of Commodore Charles Feilding, married in 1804 Elizabeth, daughter of 2nd Earl of Ilchester and widow of William Talbot of Lacock Abbey.

John Cam Hobhouse, afterwards Lord Broughton. He lost this election.

Hon. George Lamb was standing for Westminster. He was a brother of Lord Melbourne.

Mr. James Graham stood as a Whig for Hull and was successful at the General Election of 1818.

Sons of Henry, 2nd Earl of Harewood.

Brother of the 1st Earl Brownlow.

Anne, Baroness Lucas (Lady Cowper). Mary, married in 1832 Henry Vyner. Frederick William Robinson, born 1810; died in 1831. Lady Grantham had a daughter in October 1816, probably Amabel, who died in 1827.

Isabella, daughter of 4th Viscount Torrington, married, 1794, 2nd Marquess of Bath.

Her eldest son. He married in 1820 Miss Harriet Robins.

Lady Elizabeth Thynne, married in 1816 John Frederick Campbell (Earl Cawdor).

Lady Louisa Thynne, married in 1823 Henry, 3rd Earl of Harewood.

Third Earl of Ilchester, married in 1812 Caroline, daughter of Lord George Murray. She died January 8, 1819, leaving four children.

Pamela FitzGerald, daughter of Lord and Lady Edward FitzGerald.

Lady Sophia FitzGerald, born in 1762.

Lucy FitzGerald, her sister.

Edward FitzGerald, her brother. He married in 1827 Jane, daughter of Sir John Dean Paul, Bart.

Right Hon. William Peel; married Jane, daughter of 2nd Earl Mountcashell, in 1819.

Elizabeth FitzClarence, sister of 1st Earl of Munster. She married in 1820 the 16th Earl of Erroll.

Daughter of William Bingham, Senator of the United States. She married Mr. Alexander Baring, who went to Paris in 1815, and there financed a loan with France, making his own fortune and also that of the Baring House.

Mr. Colvile, Miss Eden’s brother-in-law, lived at Langley.

Lady Sophia FitzGerald.

Lord Auckland.

Lord Henry FitzGerald married in 1791 Charlotte, Baroness de Roos.

Susan, daughter of 1st Marquess of Stafford; married in 1795 1st Earl of Harrowby.

Lady Harrowby’s daughter, who married Viscount Ebrington in 1817.