The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart
Chapter 18: 1837-43
John Gibson Lockhart to Walter Scott Lockhart, 13 May 1844
“May 13, 1844.
“ . . . Ben
Disraeli, the Jew scamp, has published a very blackguard novel,
in which the Pusey and Young England
doctrines are relieved by a full and malignant, but clever enough detail of all
the abominations of Lord Hertford, and
Croker figures in full fig.1 I should not wonder if there were some
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row—the abuse of Crokey is so
very horrid, ditto of Lord Lowther.
Peel is flattered, but the Government
lashed. Awful vanity of the Hebrew!”
John Wilson Croker (1780-1857)
Secretary of the Admiralty (1810) and writer for the
Quarterly
Review; he edited an elaborate edition of Boswell's
Life of
Johnson (1831).
Walter Scott Lockhart (1826-1853)
The younger son of John Gibson Lockhart and his wife Sophia; a military officer, he
inherited Abbotsford in 1847.
William Lowther, second earl of Lonsdale (1787-1872)
The son of the first earl (d. 1844); educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge,
he was a Tory MP for Cockermouth (1808-13), and Westmorland (1813–31, 1832-41).
Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800-1882)
Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford; as a fellow of Oriel he became friends with
Keble and Newman and was instrumental in launching the Oxford Movement. He was regius
professor of Hebrew (1828).
