The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 3 May 1834
“May 3rd.
“. . . Poor old Lady
Grey† little thought what would become of her money. She
left all she had to Lady Hannah,†
and she again left it to her son, the young
Bear. He, being a very aspiring young man of fashion, has formed
a connection with Duvernay the opera
dancer, to whom he has paid £2000 down, and has contracted to pay her £800 a
year! The dear young creatures were seen going down in a chaise and four to
Richmond. Capt. Gronow, the M.P. and
duellist, negociated the affair for the young Bear§ with
the dancer’s parents.”
Pauline Duvernay (1812-1894)
French dancer who performed at Drury Lane; upon her retirement in 1837 she married the
wealthy banker and MP Stephens Lyne-Stephens.
Edward Ellice the younger (1810-1880)
Son of the politician and nephew of Earl Grey; educated at Eton and Trinity College,
Cambridge, he was a Whig MP and landowner.
Hannah Althea Ellice [née Grey] (d. 1832)
The sister of Earl Grey; in 1807 she married Captain George Edmund Byron Bettesworth, and
after he was killed in action off Bergen, in 1809 she married Edward Ellice.
Rees Howell Gronow (1794-1865)
A contemporary of Shelley at Eton, he fought in the Peninsular War and was at Waterloo,
was MP for Stafford (1832-35), and published
Reminiscences of Captain
Gronow (1861).
