The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 4 November 1820
“House of Lords, 4th November, 2 o’clock.
“. . . I must say, since my affair with Tierney on Wednesday week his behaviour has
been perfect: not so that of Young Cole,*
who is now at the same table with me, and would not for the world turn his
beautiful eyes towards me.”
James Abercromby, first baron Dunfermline (1776-1858)
The son of Lt.-Gen Sir Ralph Abercromby; he was MP for Midhurst (1807), Calne (1812-30)
and Edinburgh (1832), judge-advocate general (1827) and speaker of the House of Commons
(1835-39); he was raised to the peerage in 1839.
George Tierney (1761-1830)
Whig MP and opposition leader whose political pragmatism made him suspect in the eyes of
his party; he fought a bloodless duel with Pitt in 1798. He is the “Friend of Humanity” in
Canning and Frere's “The Needy Knife-Grinder.”
