The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 18 June 1822
“18th June.
“. . . On Saturday I dined at John
Williams’s in Lincoln’s Inn, being carried there by
Lambton in his coach, protected by two footmen. Sunday I dined at Cowper’s with Sefton,
Jerseys, Ossulston, George Lambs,
Carnarvon, Kensington and Wm. Lambe. .
. . I am sorry to find that my friend Sir Thos. Hy.
Williams has some great objections to him on the score of
delicacy.”
Charles Augustus Bennet, fifth earl of Tankerville (1776-1859)
Son of Charles Bennet, the fourth earl (d. 1822); educated at Eton, he was Whig MP for
Steyning (1803-06), Knaresborough (1806-18), and Berwick-on-Tweed) (1820-22); in 1806 he
married Armandine Sophie Leonie Corisande de Gramont.
George Lamb (1784-1834)
Lawyer and Whig MP for Westminster (1819) and Dungarvan (1822-34), he was the son of
Elizabeth Lamb Viscountess Melbourne, possibly by the Prince of Wales. He was author of a
gothic drama,
Whistle for It (1807) and served with Byron on the
management-committee of Drury Lane. His sister-in-law was Lady Caroline Lamb.
William Lamb, second viscount Melbourne (1779-1848)
English statesman, the son of Lady Melbourne (possibly by the third earl of Egremont) and
husband of Lady Caroline Lamb; he was a Whig MP, prime minister (1834-41), and counsellor
to Queen Victoria.
