“. . . I have a card to dine with Lord Dudley for this day week, tho’ it is
said he is insane, and Halford told
Sefton he was to be put under coercion
this very day.”
Sir Henry Halford, first baronet (1766-1844)
The second son of James Vaughan MD of Leicester; a court physician, he was created
baronet in 1814 and was president of the College of Physicians (1820-1844).
John William Ward, earl of Dudley (1781-1833)
The son of William Ward, third Viscount Dudley (d. 1823); educated at Edinburgh and
Oxford, he was an English MP, sometimes a Foxite Whig and sometimes Canningite Tory, who
suffered from insanity in his latter years.
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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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Publisher: Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech
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