“. . . Sir Chas.
Stuart is talked of for Foreign Secretary. Petty† may now retire and enjoy his
charades at Bowood in quiet. He is admitted by common consent to be the
damnedest idiot that ever lived, not even excepting the domestic Goderich.”
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.
Charles Stuart, baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845)
Diplomat and art collector; he was minister at Lisbon (1810-14) and ambassador at Paris
(1815-24). A grandson of Lord Bute and early friend of Henry Brougham, he was raised to the
peerage in 1828.
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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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