I cannot be insensible to the loss of so sensible and
* Alluding to the frequent insurrections that used
formerly to take place amongst the students at Hayleybury College.
MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
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so agreeable a man as Lord
Ossory, and of one so nearly related to Lord Holland; but I know nothing which, for a long time, has
made me so truly happy as to hear of your accession of fortune, which I did
this day from Lord Carlisle. I gave three
loud huzzas in Lord Cawdor’s
dressing-room; making more noise in a minute than the accumulated sounds in
Castle Howard would amount to in a whole year. God send you health and long
life, to enjoy it!
Sydney Smith.
John Pryse Campbell, first baron Cawdor (1755-1821)
Educated at Eton, he was MP for Nairnshire (1777-80) and Cardigan (1780-96); in 1789 he
married Lady Isabella Caroline Howard, a daughter of Lord Carlisle. He was raised to the
peerage in 1796.
John Fitzpatrick, second earl of Upper Ossory (1745-1818)
Of Ampthill in Bedfordshire, the son of the first earl (d. 1758) and the uncle of Lord
Holland; he was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge and was MP for
Bedfordshire (1767-94). In 1794 he was given an English peerage as Baron Upper
Ossory.
Henry Richard Fox, third baron Holland (1773-1840)
Whig politician and literary patron; Holland House was for many years the meeting place
for reform-minded politicians and writers. He also published translations from the Spanish
and Italian; Memoirs of the Whig Party was published in 1852.
Frederick Howard, fifth earl of Carlisle (1748-1825)
The Earl of Carlisle was appointed Lord Byron's guardian in 1799; they did not get along.
He published a volume of Poems (1773) that included a translation
from Dante.
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