“. . . The Beau
has made Lady Grey’s brother an
Irish bishop and Lord Rosslyn Lord
Lieutenant of the county of Fife; which, as his two first acts, is not amiss,
and quite enough, as Colin Campbell
said, to frighten people out of their senses.”
Sir Colin Campbell (1776-1847)
After service in the Peninsular War and Waterloo he was governor of Nova Scotia (1833-39)
and Ceylon (1839-47). He was a friend of the Duke of Wellington.
James St. Clair Erskine, second earl of Rosslyn (1762-1837)
He was Tory MP for Castle Rising (1781-84), Morpeth (1784), and Kirkcaldy (1790-1805);
major-general (1798) and commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean (1805).
Richard Ponsonby, bishop of Derry (1772-1853)
The son of William Brabazon Ponsonby, first Baron Ponsonby; educated at Trinity College,
Dublin, he was dean of St. Patrick's (1817), bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora (1828), and
Derry (1831).
Arthur Wellesley, first duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
Soldier and statesman; commander in the Peninsular Campaign (1809-1813), he defeated
Napoleon at Waterloo and was prime minister (1828-1830).
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Source Description:
Author: Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838
Title:The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the
late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903).
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Series: Lord Byron and his Times: http://lordbyron.org
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Publisher: Center for Applied Technologies in the Humanities, Virginia Tech
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