The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 19 August 1833
“Stoke, August 19th, 1833.
“Brougham,
Plunket, Chas. Greville and Sefton
have gone to town, and I am to entertain Lord John
Russell who stays to dinner to-morrow. I am just going to ride
with him and the ladies; and, by Sefton’s desire, to
write my name at the Castle [Windsor]. Next Wednesday is the King’s birthday, when there is a great
dinner there. The Seftons have got their invitation; so we
shall see if I am equally successful in my meanness.
Don’t you think I am become too great a toady of Royalty?”
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).
Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville (1794-1865)
The son of Captain Charles Greville (1762-1832); he was educated at Eton College and at
Christ Church, Oxford, and was clerk-in-ordinary to the privy council. His famous
Diary began appearing in 1874.
John Russell, first earl Russell (1792-1878)
English statesman, son of John Russell sixth duke of Bedford (1766-1839); he was author
of
Essay on the English Constitution (1821) and
Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe (1824) and was Prime Minister (1865-66).
