The Creevey Papers
Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, 13 February 1826
“13th Feby.
“. . . I dined yesterday with old Sussex. After dinner he proposed Stephenson’s and Lady Mary Keppel’s healths† and
thus announced that most interesting and opulent alliance. Albemarle was there, and seemed contented. I hear
old Coke is furious about it.† .
. . We shall have a division on Robinson’s plan.§ Most of the Oppn. will vote for him. I
certainly shall. We are gone too far to recede.”
Frederick John Robinson, first earl of Ripon (1782-1859)
Educated at Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge, he was a Tory MP for Carlow
(1806-07) and Ripon (1807-27), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1823-27), and prime minister
(1827-28) in succession to Canning.
Henry Frederick Stephenson (1790-1858)
The illegitimate son of the eleventh duke of Norfolk; he was private secretary to the
Duke of Suffolk and secretary to the Sublime Socity of Beef Steaks.
