The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 28 September 1821
“Gosforth House, 28th Sept., 1821.
“. . . As you are all soldiers in your hearts, I
send you a letter I got from Sefton last
Sunday, with his opinion touching the Life Guards. By the by, Lambton sent up £500 from Cantley as his
subscription for buying Wilson an
annuity equal to the pay he has lost. . . .”
Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1777-1849)
Soldier, author, radical Whig MP for Southwark (1818-31), and diplomat; he wrote
History of the British Expedition to Egypt (1802) and was governor
of Gibraltar (1842).
