The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 5 June 1828
“5th.
“. . . On Tuesday the King made Jersey go over
the names of all the company in this house, and when
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he mentioned mine Prinney was
pleased to say:—‘Well, he’s not
much of a jockey I think!’”
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.
