“House of Lords, Sept. 4, 3 o’clock.
“Here’s a fellow examining who says he came on
Saturday night with eleven others, so it can’t
close so soon as I had thought. We are still in the dark as
“Brooks’s, 5 o’clock.
Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the
Edinburgh
Review in which he chastised Byron's
Hours of Idleness; he
defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
(1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).