The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 20 January 1832
“Jany. 20th, 1832.
“. . . Oh dear! what a squeak we had last night. To
come down to a majority of only 20. Sad work, gentlemen, sad work! However, it
might have been worse, for the enemy to the last thought we were beat. We are
bunglers when we quit the subject of Reform. . . . It is some comfort that in
our other shop, the Lords, everything went well. Lord
Grey had insisted on Lord
Hill* voting against the Duke of
Wellington, and he did so—looking very miserable.”
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).
Arthur Moyes William Sandys, second baron Sandys (1792-1860)
Irish military officer; he was the second son of Arthur Hill, second Marquess of
Downshire and Mary Sandys, Baroness Sandys; educated at Eton, he was MP for County Down
(1817-36) before he succeeded to the title.
