The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 18 March 1829
“Sulby, March 18.
“Rather stiffish to-day, my dear; it can’t, of
course, be age! but going four and twenty miles on a
hard road at a kind of hand gallop is rather shaking, you know, to those not
used to it. . . . The men we have had here are principally Pytchley, which, in
dandyism, are very second-rate to the Quorn or Melton men. . . .
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Osbaldeston himself, tho’ only 5
feet high, and in features like a cub fox, is a very funny little chap; clever
in his way, very good-humored and gay, and with very good manners. . . . I am
very fond of all these lads being dressed in scarlet in the evening. It looks
so gay.”
George Osbaldeston (1786-1866)
The son of George Osbaldeston (d. 1793); educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he was a
Whig MP for East Retford (1812-18) and high sheriff for Yorkshire (1829) but remembered for
his horseracing exploits.
