“18th.—Invited to dine
at Lord Hill’s, where the Duke and a
great party were to be; but I would not go, because I found [General] Barnes had written to Lord
Hill desiring him to ask me.
Sir Edward Barnes (1776-1838)
Military officer; after service in the West Indies he was a staff officer under
Wellington in the Peninsular War and was severely wounded at Waterloo; he was Governor of
Ceylon (1824-31).
Rowland Hill, first Viscount Hill (1772-1842)
One of Wellington's distinguished lieutenants in the Peninsular War and Waterloo; he was
created viscount in 1842.
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Source Description:
Author: Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838
Title:The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the
late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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Publisher: Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech
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