The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 3 June 1828
“Stoke, 3rd June [Ascot Races].
“. . . Grey has
seen all the correspondence between the
Beau and Huskisson, and a
greater mass of lies has never been circulated than those by
Huskisson’s friends. In short, everything
Wellington has done has been straightforward to the
outside, and Huskisson has acted like a knave throughout,
and Ward,* who was a negociator between
them, like a perfect idiot. Prinney was the
only sensible man besides the Beau, and stuck to him like
a leech.”
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).
William Huskisson (1770-1830)
English politician and ally of George Canning; privately educated, he was a Tory MP for
Morpeth (1796-1802), Liskeard (1804-07), Harwich (1807-12), Chichester (1812-23), and
Liverpool (1823-30). He died in railway accident.
John William Ward, earl of Dudley (1781-1833)
The son of William Ward, third Viscount Dudley (d. 1823); educated at Edinburgh and
Oxford, he was an English MP, sometimes a Foxite Whig and sometimes Canningite Tory, who
suffered from insanity in his latter years.
