The Creevey Papers
Edward Ellice to Thomas Creevey, [April? 1827]
“Brooks’s [no date].
“. . . Be assured Bruffam will bolt! He is very sore at Scarlett’s appointment, with all his professions of
disinterestedness, and no wonder! He says support of an ‘hon. and
learned member opposite’ is
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not quite the same thing as that of ‘my hon. and
learned friend near me;’ and that his exclusion will shut his
mouth. This is all as I expected. We shall see strange confusion and
quarrelling in the end. Lord Grey has shut
his door upon Tan., and if they don’t
take care, will lead the new Govt.—with or without Ld. Lansdowne—a pretty dance in the Lords.
. . . I envy none of them the legacy the Tories have left their successors.
They have drained the cup of good things to the dregs, and left many a bitter
draught for those that follow them. . . . The fellow can’t wait for the
letters, and indeed I could only add some lies of the day.
“Yours,
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.
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).
Queen Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1768-1821)
Married the Prince of Wales in 1795 and separated in 1796; her husband instituted
unsuccessful divorce proceedings in 1820 when she refused to surrender her rights as
queen.
Edward Ellice (1783-1863)
British merchant with the Hudson's Bay Company and Whig MP for Coventry (1818-26,
1830-63); he was a friend of Sir Francis Burdett and John Cam Hobhouse.
Charles Grey, second earl Grey (1764-1845)
Whig statesman and lover of the Duchess of Devonshire; the second son of the first earl
(d. 1807), he was prime minister (1831-34).
James Scarlett, first baron Abinger (1769-1844)
English barrister and politician educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Inner
Temple; he was a Whig MP (1819-34) who served as attorney-general in the Canning and
Wellington ministries.
