“. . . Our folks are to meet presently about the
Queen’s subscription. Unfortunately Fitzwilliam is out of town, but Milton is now by my side.”
“4 o’clock.
“The meeting is over: very thinly attended, and
things looking damned ill and black.”
Charles William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, third earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857)
Son of the second earl (d. 1833); educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a Whig
MP for Malton (1806-07), Yorkshire (1807-30), Peterborough (1830), and Northamptonshire
(1831-31).
William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, second earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833)
The nephew of the Marquis of Rockingham and lifelong friend of Charles James Fox and Lord
Carlisle; he was president of the Council (1806-07) and lieutenant of the West Riding from
1798 to 1819 when he was dismissed for his censure of the Peterloo massacre.
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Author: Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838
Title:The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the
late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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