A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1844
Sydney Smith to Lady Carlisle, 25 August 1844
Combe Florey, Aug. 25th,
1844.
My dear Lady Carlisle,
I think the enclosed will amuse Lord Carlisle. Mr.
Wainwright* is known to Morpeth, as well as to my
* A distinguished minister of the Episcopalian
Church, United States, since dead. |
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self, and is a most amiable clergyman, who paid a visit
to this country two or three years since.
The fact is unknown to any of his congregation, but when
in this country, he went once to the Opera, and supped with Lord Lyndhurst afterwards. In private, he often
wore a short cassock, like a bishop’s, and looked at himself for a long
time in the glass. He carried over one of these cassocks to America, that
Mrs. Wainwright might see him in it.
We are going for a week to Sidmouth, that paradise of the
waves.
John Singleton Copley, baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863)
The son of the American painter; he did legal work for John Murray before succeeding Lord
Eldon as lord chancellor (1827-30, 1834-35, 1841-46); a skilled lawyer, he was also a
political chameleon.
George Howard, sixth earl of Carlisle (1773-1848)
Son of the fifth earl (d. 1825); he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, wrote
for the
Anti-Jacobin, and was MP for Morpeth (1795-1806) and
Cumberland (1806-28).
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright (1792-1854)
Born in Liverpool, England, he was a Harvard-educated Episcopal clergyman and bishop of
New York (1852).