The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 21 January 1820
“. . . We got to Cashiobury [Lord Essex’s] at ½ past five on Wednesday, too late to
see the outside of the house, and were shown into a most comfortable
library—a beautiful room 50 feet in length, full of books and every
comfort. . . . We passed a most agreeable evening. I did not see the flower
garden, which is the great lion of the place. Brougham and I had a most agreeable drive here, not the less so
to me from the extraordinary friendliness of him. . . . We arrived here
yesterday at five. We found only Lord Foley
and Berkeley Craven, and they are gone
this morning, so we compose only a quartette. The house is immensely large,
apparently, for I have not seen it all, and cannot get out for the immense fall
of snow during the night. . . .”
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).
Henry Augustus Berkeley Craven (1776-1836)
Son of William, sixth baron Craven; he married Marie Clarisse Trebhault in 1829. He was a
military officer and personal friend of the Duke of York.
Thomas Foley, third baron Foley (1780-1833)
Whig peer, the son of the second baron (d. 1793); educated under Samuel Parr at Hatton
and at Christ Church, Oxford, he was a privy councillor and Lord-Lieutenant of
Worcestershire (1831-33).
