The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 30 January 1821
“Brooks’s, 30th Jan., 1821.
“. . . I dined at Sefton’s yesterday—Lord
Grey, Lady Louisa and
Lambton and Mr. and Mrs. Bruffham. . .
. Grey is so keen with me about giving Brother Bragge* a dust about accepting his
office and not vacating his seat, that I must, I believe, accommodate him. . .
. When, at dinner, I described old
Cole’s attempt at crimping me into the Doctor’s camp† in 1803, assisted by
those distinguished statesmen Porter
and Brogden, he grinned most profusely,
saying—‘God forgive me! as Lord
King says, but I can’t help liking
him.’”
Charles Bragge Bathurst (1754-1831)
Originally Bragge; educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, he was a Tory MP who
held high offices as the brother-in-law of Henry Addington.
James Brogden (1765 c.-1842)
Educated at Eton, he was a Russia merchant in London, Whig MP for Launceston in Cornwall
(1796-1832), and a Lord of the Treasury from 1812.
Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the
Edinburgh
Review in which he chastised Byron's
Hours of Idleness; he
defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
(1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).
Lady Mary Anne Brougham [née Eden] (1785-1865)
The daughter of Thomas Eden; she married (1) the Scottish MP John Spalding (d. 1815) in
1807 and (2) Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux in 1819.
Charles Grey, second earl Grey (1764-1845)
Whig statesman and lover of the Duchess of Devonshire; the second son of the first earl
(d. 1807), he was prime minister (1831-34).
Peter King, seventh baron King (1775-1833)
Whig politician, son of the sixth baron; he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College,
Cambridge before succeeding to the title in 1793. His son William married Ada Byron.
George Porter, sixth Baron de Hochepied (1760-1828)
Of Adur Lodge, Sussex; the son of James Porter, ambassador to the Porte, he was a a
British military officer and Whig MP for Stockbridge (1793-1820).
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.”
