The Creevey Papers
Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [1819]
“5, Hill St., no date [1819].
“My dear C.,
“You talk like an idiot—a Liverpolian—a
concentric—a pautriot (quid plura?) in all you say about the
Jerseys. I appeal to Bennet who was present when Lady Jersey said how delighted she would be to
see you at Middleton. But suppose I had said you would go with me, and had
written to her the day before—that would have been
quite sufficient. Rely upon me—I am the last and shyest man in the world
to do these things at such places as Holland House, Chatsworth, Croxteth,
&c., but I am on a footing of friendship with the Jerseys as intimate as if
I were a brother, and I know them thoroughly, and you may trust me. But a cross
accident has for the present delayed it all. The D. of
York goes there the 16th, instead of the 6th (as he had said),
so our party (Sefton,
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Thanet, Ossy,* &c.) is put off. Then Sefton is
engaged to [illegible] on the 20th, and to Sir H. Featherstone 25th (pray mention this
visit to him when you write); therefore we talk of Middleton the end of Jany.
or beginning of Feby.”
Charles Augustus Bennet, fifth earl of Tankerville (1776-1859)
Son of Charles Bennet, the fourth earl (d. 1822); educated at Eton, he was Whig MP for
Steyning (1803-06), Knaresborough (1806-18), and Berwick-on-Tweed) (1820-22); in 1806 he
married Armandine Sophie Leonie Corisande de Gramont.
Henry Grey Bennet (1777-1836)
The son of Charles Bennet, fourth earl of Tankerville; educated at Eton and Peterhouse,
Cambridge, he was a Whig MP for MP for Shrewsbury (1806-07, 1811-26) and a legal
reformer.
Frederick Augustus, Duke of York (1763-1827)
He was commander-in-chief of the Army, 1798-1809, until his removal on account of the
scandal involving his mistress Mary Anne Clarke.
George Gordon Byron, sixth Baron Byron (1788-1824)
Don Juan. (London: 1819-1824). A burlesque poem in ottava rima published in installments: Cantos I and II published in
1819, III, IV and V in 1821, VI, VII, and VIII in 1823, IX, X, and XI in 1823, XII, XIII,
and XIV in 1823, and XV and XVI in 1824.
