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A full account of this time is given in
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Hon. Eleanor Eden, married in 1799 Lord Hobart (Earl of Buckinghamshire). He died in 1816; she was generally known as Lady Bucks.
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Anne Isabella, daughter of Sir R. Milbanke Noel, married Lord Byron, January 2, 1815. He had proposed to her and been refused in 1812.
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Miss Eden’s sister, who married Charles Drummond the banker in 1819.
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Nicholas Vansittart (1766-1851), Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1812; he was created Baron Bexley in 1823; he had married Miss Eden’s sister, who died in 1810.
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Miss Eden’s brother, Lord Auckland (the comical dog); he succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Auckland in 1814. He became President of the Board of Trade in 1830, First Lord of the Admiralty in 1834, Governor-General of India in 1835, First Lord of the Admiralty in 1840.
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By Claude de Ruthière.
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Daughter of Robert, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire; she married, Sept. 1, 1814, Frederick John Robinson, second son of Thomas, Lord Grantham. Created Viscount Goderich in 1827. He became Prime Minister after Canning’s death.
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Her father, who died May 28, 1814.
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Her sister, Charlotte Eden, married Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne in 1800.
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George, subsequently 8th Duke of Leeds.
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Daughter of 3rd Lord Bessborough, married W. Lamb (Viscount Melbourne) in 1805, and finally separated from him in 1825. She died in 1828.
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Near Dorchester, belonging to Lord Ilchester.
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In Berkshire, belonging to Colonel Arthur Vansittart, who married Caroline Eden.
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Miss Eden’s brother.
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Count Meerveldt was the Austrian Ambassador; he died the following year.
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Widow of Spencer Percival, who was assassinated in 1812; she married, secondly, Mr. Carr (Lieut. – Col. Sir H. Carr).
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Lady Elizabeth Fox-Strangways, widow of Mr. Talbot of Laycock Abbey in Wiltshire, married, secondly, in 1804, Captain Feilding, R.N., afterwards Rear-Admiral.
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Amelia, daughter of Viscount Melbourne, married in 1805 5th Earl of Cowper.
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Lady Sarah Fane, daughter of 10th Earl of Westmoreland, married in 1804 5th Earl of Jersey.
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Lady Louisa Fox-Strangways married in 1808 Henry, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne.
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Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice.
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Earl of Kerry, aged three.
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Caroline married in 1831 3rd Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, and Horatia married in 1850 Mr. T. Gaisford.
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A Treaty of Peace was signed at Ghent between England and the United States on December 24, 1814.
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A great friend of Lord and Lady Holland, born in 1764.
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Sir George Onesiphorus Paul (1746-1820). “One of the prettiest places” was Hill House, Woodchester, Gloucestershire.
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Juliana, daughter of the Hon. and Rev. W. Digby, Dean of Durham.
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Charles Hanbury, a diplomatist and writer; he took the name of Williams in 1729. He was knighted in 1744.
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Lady Susan Fox-Strangways married Mr. O’Brien, a handsome young actor, in 1764.
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Miss Eden’s sister Mary, aged twenty-two, and her brother Lord Auckland, were staying at Melbury, Dorchester, with Lord Ilchester.
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Lady Theresa Strangways, married in 1837 9th Lord Digby.
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Miss Grant, Lady Ilchester’s mother.
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Miss Eden’s nephew, aged ten.
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Sir G. Paul was only sixty-eight years old.
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Morton and Bob, Miss Eden’s two brothers.
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Lord Auckland was auditor of Greenwich Hospital.
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Dropmore belonged to William Wyndham, Lord Grenville.
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The Corn Law of 1815 which closed the ports to the importation of foreign grain till the prices reached eighty shillings a quarter.
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Miss Eden’s brother-in-law.
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The battle of Waterloo had been fought on the 18th June.
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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.
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William, 15th Earl of Erroll.
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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.
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This was a party badge.
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Thomas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, married, 1807, Jean, daughter of James Wedderburn Colvile. He was Lady Delancey’s uncle.
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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:
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Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice, married in 1845 Hon. James Kenneth Howard.
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The Austrian Ambassador died on July 4.
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Lady Delancey married, secondly, in 1819, Captain H. Harvey.
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Thomas Heaphy, 1775-1835. He painted on the spot Wellington and his officers before an action in the Peninsular War.
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Lady Katherine Douglas, sister of Lord Selkirk, married in July 1815 John Halkett, Governor of the Bahamas.
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The tutor.
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Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister. He married Louisa Theodosia, daughter of the Bishop of Derry (Earl of Bristol).
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Lady Sarah Robinson, Lady Buckinghamshire’s step-daughter.
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Miss Eden’s sister, Mrs. Colvile.
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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.
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Eastcombe, Charlton, Kent (Lady Buckinghamshire’s house).
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Hon. Charlotte Eden, married in 1800 Lord Frances Godolphin Osborne; created Baron Godolphin in 1832.
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Lady Henrietta Cole, married in 1805 Thomas Philip, 3rd Lord Grantham; the Granthams had a house at Putney.
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Newby Hall, near Ripon, belonging to Lord Grantham.