The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 20 December 1834
“Tower, Dec. 20.
“. . . Lyndhurst
said to some one yesterday:—‘D’ye know where Peel’s letter was
concocted?’—‘No,’ said the
other.—‘At Brooks’s!’ said
Lyndhurst. What a wag. I should say it would do for
the present, and until the Irish Church comes upon the stage, or any other
similar puzzler. I don’t feel any wish to disturb such a government as
long as they keep to such a text. How Goulburn, Knatchbull,
&c., are to swallow such Liberalism I neither know nor care. However, our
people are all up in arms against what they call the humbug of
Jenny.”*
John Singleton Copley, baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863)
The son of the American painter; he did legal work for John Murray before succeeding Lord
Eldon as lord chancellor (1827-30, 1834-35, 1841-46); a skilled lawyer, he was also a
political chameleon.
Henry Goulburn (1784-1856)
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he held a variety of government offices and was
Tory MP for Horsham (1808-12), St. Germans (1812-18), West Looe ((1818-26), Armaugh
(1826-31), and Cambridge University (1831-56).
