In Whig Society 1775-1818
Index
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INDEX
Abercromby, Sir Ralph, 42
Ada Reif, novel by Lady Caroline Lamb, 186
Adair, Sir Robert, 44, 48, 81
Addington, Henry, Premier, 24, 27,41
Albemarle, Lord, 98-9
Alexandria, Battle of, 42
Andover, Lady, 80, 82
Andreossi, General, 42
Argus, Jacobinical paper in Paris, 53
Austerlitz, Battle of, 93
Baring, Sir Francis, 46
Barras, French Deputy, 43, 56-7
Barrere, 67
Beaufort, Duchess of, 164
Beauharoais, 57, 183
Bedford, Francis, 6th Duke of (“Loo”), 24, 29-36
Bedford, John, 6th Duke of, 35,48
Bedford, Duchess of (Georgiana Gordon), 60
Bentinck, Lord William, Envoy and Commander-in-chief in Sicily, 101
Berry, Miss, 105
Berthier, 51
Bossborough, Lord, 130
Bessborough, Lady, 5, 51, 84,127-8, 130, 154, 168-70
Billaud de Varennes, 56
Borghese, Princess, 191
Boringdon, Lord, 19, 105
Brocket Hall, Herts, 3, 82-3
Brougham, Henry, Member for Camelford, 153; member of new “Radical Party,”
158; friendship with wife of George Lamb, 186-8
Buckingham, Lord, 108
Burdett, Sir Francis, 23
Byron, Lord, friendship with Lady Melbourne, 7; satirized George Lamb’s opera in
his “English Bards,” 69; Lady Caroline Lamb’s infatuation with, 126-8,
149-57; his attachment to Annabella Milbanke, 132-4; published the “Giaour,”
161; and the “Corsair,” 162; marriage, 165; unhappy result of marriage, 166
Cabarrus, Therese, 43, 46, 51, 54
Cambaceres, 56
Campbell, Lady Charlotte, 64
Canning, George, 18, 19, 24-5;
President of Board of Control, 189
Caroline, niece of Duchess of Devonshire, 88; married to William Lamb, 88; appearance
and character, 91; intrigue with Lord Byron, 92, 126-31; conduct causes scandal, 116-20;
expostulated with Byron, 150-2; final rupture, 152-7; in Belgium after Battle of Waterloo,
170; wrote novel called Glenarvon 183; retired to Brocket, 185; wrote another novel, Ada
Beit, 186; death, 186
Carrington, surgeon, 39
Castlereagh, Lord, 87; at the Foreign Office, 158; at Congress of Vienna, 170
Catholic Emancipation, aversion of George III to, 23, 98; Prince Regent and, 112
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Chatsworth, 59, 85
Chiswick, 60
Cipriani, painter, 73
Clavering, Lady Augusta, 64
Coke, Thomas, Member for Norfolk, 80, 98
Collot d’Herbois, 56
Conyngham, Lady (Henrietta Denison), 52, 54, 172
Corn Bill (1815), 173
Cornwallis, Marquess of, 24, 29
Couthon, Robert, 56
Cowper, 5th Earl, particulars of, 80-3; married to Emily Lamb, 84; they go abroad,
189-90
Cowper, Countess (afterwards Lady Palmerston), 168, 176; her daughter Minny (afterwards
Lady Shaftesbury), 192; second daughter, Fanny, 193-4
Creevy, Mrs., 95
Cumberland, Duke of, 44
Cumberland, Duchess of, 44-5
Danton, 57
de Stael, Madame, 168
Devonshire, Duke of, 37, 94
Devonshire, Duchess of (Georgiana Spencer), influence on London Society and Whig Party,
10, 11, 26-7, 30; death, 93
Devonshire House, 30
Digswell, Herts, on the Panshanger estate, 84
Dorchester, Lord, 83
Douglas, Mr., visited Bonaparte at Elba, 169
Dundas, Henry, 24
Egremont, Lord, 19, 67, 72
England, condition during Napoleonic wars, 22-3, 181
Erskine, Lord, 24, 44, 47
Farquhar, Sir Walter, fashionable physician, 39, 94, 199
Fitzherbert, Mrs., 95, 122-3
Fitzpatrick, General Sir Richard, 37, 39, 48
Fontenay, Marquis de, 43
Fordyce, John, farmer, 33
Foster, Lady Elizabeth, 46, 50, 94
Foster, Frederick, 54
Foster, John Thomas, 36
Fox, Charles James, regarded as the champion of liberty, 12; married to Mrs. Armistead,
42; in Paris, 42; election to Institute, Paris, 49; speech in Commons on France and
England, 59; Foreign Secretary, 93; death, 93
France, peace with (1802), 41; (1814), 168
French Revolution, opinions in England, 18
Freron, 56-7
Friends of the People, The, a society, 24
George III, opposed to Catholic Emancipation, 23; illness, 97
George, Prince of Wales (afterwards George IV), friend of Lady Melbourne, 4, 72; lends
her the Pavilion, Brighton, 86; attachment to Mrs. Fitzherbert, 95; Regent, 97;
estrangement from his wife, 158, 168
Giles, Daniel, Member for St. Albans, 120-5
Glenarvon, novel by Lady Caroline Lamb, 184
Gordon, Duchess of (Jane Maxwell), 29, 44, 48, 57
Gordon, Lady Charlotte (Duchess of Richmond), 29
Gordon, Lady Georgiana (Duchess of Bedford), 29, 51-2
Gordon, Lady Louisa (Marchioness of Cornwallis), 29, 52
Gordon, Lady Susan (Duchess of Manchester), 29, 33
Gower, Lord Granville Leveson, the “Adonis” of his day, 80; marriage, 84
Granville, Lord, 24, 80-1
Grenville, 24, 97, 104
Greville, Prime Minister, 93
Grey, Charles (Viscount Howick and Earl Grey), rising statesman, 12; friendship with
Duchess of Devonshire, 13; advanced views on liberty, 18, 24; attacked in speech by
Sheridan, 25; opposed Prince Regent, 97, 104
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Hardwick, near Mansfield, residence of Duchess of Devonshire, 27, 38
Hare, James, 26, 37, 39
Harriet, wife of Lord Granville Leveson Gower, 84—5
Harrington, Lady, 80-1
Hawk, Mrs., head nurse to Lady Cowper, 190, 193
Heathcote, Lady, Society gathering at her house, 152-6
Herault de Sechelles, 56
Hertford, by-election at, 86
Hervy, Lady Elizabeth (“Bess”), married Thomas Foster, 36
Hoche, 56
Holland, Lord, 24
Holland, Lady, divorced wife of Sir Godfrey Webster, 25; in Paris, 42, 46; friendship
with Lady Melbourne, 110-11
Huskisson, William, 88
Inverary Castle, 64
Ireland, Act of Union, 23, 98
Jersey, Lord and Lady, on the Continent, 190-1
Josephine, wife of Napoleon, 42
Jourdan, Member of Council of 500, 55
Junot, General, 56
Kemble, Mrs. Stephen, 10
Kimbolton, country house of the Duke of Manchester, 32
Kinnaird, George, 8th Baron, 64, 77
Lamb, Amelia Mary (“Emily”), (Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess
Palmerston), early days, 76; appearance and character, 77; sought in marriage by Lord
Kinnaird, 77-9; married to Earl Cowper, 84
Lamb, Augustus Frederick, son of William and Caroline Lamb, 95, 118, 122
Lamb, Frederick, third son of Lady Melbourne, 67; in the Army, 75; Secretary of
Legation, 102; at Congress of Vienna, 170; his personality,
176; diplomatic business at Frankfort, 177
Lamb, George, fourth son of Lady Melbourne, 9; produced an opera, Whistle Me First,
68-71
Lamb, Harriet Anne, younger daughter of Lady Melbourne, 9; death, 10, 62
Lamb, Peniston, eldest son of Lady Melbourne, 8; Member for Hertfordshire, 62; death, 62
Lamb, William (afterwards 2nd Lord Melbourne), second son of Lady Melbourne, opinion of
his mother, 6; early days, 63; appearance, 63; paid visit to Inverary Castle, 64; law
student, 67; won declamation prize, 68; speech at Hertford by-election, 88; marriage, 88;
unhappy married life, 90; Member for Portarlington, 105; Chief Secretary for Ireland, 186;
returned for Peterborough, 189; closing days, 200
Lauderdale, Lord, 27, 72
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (“the Monk”), 64
Liverpool, Lord, Premier, 158
Louis XVIII, restored to throne, 168
Lucan, Lady, 68
Luttrel, Henry, wit and poet, 80-2
Lyttleton, Lady, 120, 194 Malta, 43
Manchester, Duke of, 29, 32
Marie Antoinette, 43
Massena, General, 42, 47-8, 169
Melbourne, Lord (Peniston Lamb), marriage, 2; created 1st Lord Melbourne, 3; Member for
Ludgershall, 3; Lord of the Bedchamber, 4; proud of his daughter Emily, 77; censured his
daughter-in-law, Lady Caroline, 127
Melbourne, Lady, birth, 1; marriage to Peniston Lamb, 2; appearance and character, 2;
friendship with George Prince of Wales, 4; friendship with Lord Byron, 7; her children,
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8-9 and Ch. IV; her house the centre of Whig Society, 9; friendship
with Duchess of Devonshire, 11; and with Charles Grey, 12; her genius for business, 15;
friendship with Canning, 19; trouble with her daughter-in-law, Lady Caroline, 116, 147,
183; controversy with Mr. Giles, 120-5; correspondence with her niece Annabella Milbanke,
136-42, 159-62; closing days, 196-9; death, 200; numerous letters from and to, passim.
Melbourne House, Piccadilly, the great centre of Whig Society, 7,
Menou, General, 42, 56
Milbanke, Anna Isabella (“Annabella”), correspondence with her aunt, Lady
Melbourne, on the question of marriage, 136-42; discussed Lord Byron in letters to Lady
Melbourne, 159-63; marriage with Lord Byron, 166; left her husband’s home, 166
Milbanke, John, 15
Milbanke, Sir John, son of John, 15
Milbanke, Sir Ralph, father of Lady Melbourne, 1
Minto, Lord, 69
Morgan, Lady, 90-2
Moira, Lord, 157, 159
Moreau, General, 42, 48, 55-6
Morpeth, Lord, 19, 42, 80
Napoleon Bonaparte, 24, 43, 54, 62, 168-73
Nelson, 93
O’Connor, Arthur, Irish Rebel, 43, 46
Orange, Prince of, 172
Ord, Mrs., 18
Oxford, 5th Earl of, 43
Oxford, Lady, 43, 46, 151-3, 156
Palmer, Mrs., 29, 34
Panshanger, Herts, seat of Earl Cowper, Charles Greville described visit to, 195; visit
of Queen Victoria, 195
Paris, Whig Society in, Ch. III.
Peninsular War, 112
Perceval, Spencer, hostile to the Catholics, 99; his Ministry, 104; assassinated, 105
Peterson, Mrs., 128-30
Pitt, resigned office, 23; 41, 47, 59; death, 93
Ponsonby, Caroline, married to William Lamb, 60
Ponsonby, Frederick, wounded at Waterloo, 170
Portland, Duke of, 27-8
Rebecca, Biagio, painter, 73
Recamier, Madame, 52, 54
Regency Bill, 98
Richmond, Duke of, 29, 37, 94
Richmond, Duchess of (Charlotte Lennox), 37, 172
Robespierre, 66
Robinson, Mr., 38, 51-2
Rosebery, Lady, wife of 4th Lord, 153
St. Albans, representation of 111, 120-4
St. Jules, Caroline Rosalie, married to George Lamb, 71
St. Just, 56
Salisbury, 1st Marquess of, 2, 86
Santerre, 57
Seger, Mr., 58
Sheridan, 24-8, 97, 120, 153
Sidmouth, Lord, 108
Spencer, Lord, 24
Spencer, Miss Charlotte, 37
Stein, Baron von, 103
Suffolk, Lord, 22
Switzerland, 43
Talleyrand, 51
Tallien, the Girondist, 43, 51, 55, 57
Tierney, George, 25-8, 39, 111
Toulon, 43
Townshend, Lord John, 87
Trafalgar, Battle of, 93
Uhn, Battle of, 93
Vernon, Mr., visits Napoleon at Elba, 169
Vestris, French ballet dancer, 54
Vienna, Congress of, 170
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Wales, Princess of, unhappy relations with her husband, 158-9; fantastic conduct on the
Continent, 169, 183
Walpole, Horace, reference to Lady Melbourne, 6
Warwick, Lord, 23
Waterloo, Battle of, 170
Webster, Sir Godfrey, 25, 92, 118
Wellesley, Marquess of, 105, 112-15, 157
Wellesley, Sir Arthur (Duke of Wellington), 112, 169, 171
Welwyn, Herts, 3, 84
Whig Club, banquet, 24
Whistle Me First, opera by George Lamb, 68-70
Whitbread, 25. 153, 139
Whitworth, Lord, Ambassador in France. 57, 62
Wilberforce, 87
Windham, 24
Wombwell, Lady Anne, 68
Wraxall, writer, 4, 5
Wrest Park, Beds, 3
York, Duke of, 7, 73, 104
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