The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 17 October 1820
“House of Lords, 17th Oct., 1 o’clock.
“. . . I went in from the Derbys last night to ‘Sally’ Jersey’s, and it was really very
agreeable—only ‘Sally,’ Madame Lieven, Lady
Eliz. Stuart and Madame
Flahault, with four or five men besides myself.
“The House of Commons meets at ½ past three to-day,
and I must contrive somehow or other to have a brush there. . . .”
Edward Smith Stanley, twelfth earl of Derby (1752-1834)
Grandson of the eleventh earl (d. 1776); educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,
he was a Whig MP for Lancashire, a friend of Charles James Fox, nephew of John Burgoyne,
and a committed sportsman.
