The Creevey Papers
Richard Brinsley Sheridan to Eleanor Creevey, [1811]
“Grosvenor Place, Saturday morning.
“I left Hester
about two hours ago: she violently expects you. Remember we have a bed for you,
a fishing rod for Creevey on Monday
morning. If you will stay over Monday, Hester and Richmond
Hill will make you quite well, and there are, not cockney, but classical Lions
for Creevey to see. . . .”
Eleanor Creevey [née Branding] (d. 1818)
The daughter of Charles Branding (1733-1802); in 1779 she married William Ord (d. 1789)
and in 1802, the politician and diarist Thomas Creevey.
Thomas Creevey (1768-1838)
Whig politician aligned with Charles James Fox and Henry Brougham; he was MP for Thetford
(1802-06, 1807-18) Appleby (1820-26) and Downton (1831-32). He was convicted of libel in
1813.
