The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 29 January 1810
“29th.—All confusion
to-day, owing to this change about dividing on the thanks to Wellington. Rank mutiny has broken out, and it is
now said we are certainly to divide. Milton, Folkestone, Lord J. Townshend, George Ponsonby, junr.—in short, all the Insurgents. This
is all because our leaders, having once been in a majority, cannot bear ever to
be in a minority again. A damned, canting fellow in the House, Mr. Manning, complained of members’
names being printed* as a breach of privilege, and so it wd. have passed off,
if I had not shewed them that, so far from its being a breach of privilege, it
was a vote in King William’s time
‘that members’ names should be printed, that the country might know
who did, and who did not, their duty.’ . . .
Wellington’s thanks are put off till Thursday. .
. . Lord Huntly ordered to attend at the
Bar of the House as a witness on the enquiry into the Scheldt expedition. So
now the Ministers are nail’d.
William Pleydell- Bouverie, third earl of Radnor (1779-1869)
Son of the second earl (d. 1828); educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he was Whig MP
for Downton (1801) and Salisbury (1802-28), and an associate of Sir Francis Burdett and
Samuel Whitbread.
William Manning (1763-1835)
West-India merchant and Tory MP for Plympton Erle (1794-96), Lymington (1796-1806,
1818-20, 1821-26), Evesham (1806-18), Penryn (1826-30). He was the father of Cardinal
Manning.
Hon. George Ponsonby (1774-1863)
Of Woolbeding in Sussex; he was the son of William Brabazon Ponsonby, first Baron
Ponsonby, and was MP for County Kilkenny (1806), County Cork (1807-12), and Youghal
(1826-32).
Lord John Townshend (1757-1833)
The son of George Townshend, first Marquess Townshend; he was educated at Eton and St
John's College, Cambridge and was a Whig MP for Cambridge, Westminster, and Knaresborough.
He was a denizen of Holland House and Sheridan's literary executor.
