The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 5 February 1829
“5th.
“Our only visitor last night was Sefton, who arrived about 12, bringing with him
the correspondence between the Duke of
Wellington and Lord
Anglesey, which the latter had lent to Sefton
to be returned the next morning at 11. He read it to Mrs. Taylor and me, and it was ½ past one
before he had done. The Beau, according to custom, writes
atrociously, and his charges against Lord Anglesey are of
the rummest kind, such as being too much addicted to popular courses, going to Lord Cloncurry’s, being too civil to Catholic
leaders, not turning Mr. O’Gorman
Mahon out of the commission of the peace, &c., &c. There
are letters full of such stuff, and Lord ![]()
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Anglesey in his answers beats him easy in all ways. . . .
The Whigs are quite as sore as the Brunswickers at this victory of
the Beau over Prinney and his Catholic prejudices. They had arranged the most
brilliant opposition for the approaching session, and this coup of the
Duke’s has blown up the whole concern.
“At Brooks’s last night the deceased poet
Rogers came up to beg I would meet
Brougham at dinner at his house on
Wednesday.”
Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868)
Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the
Edinburgh
Review in which he chastised Byron's
Hours of Idleness; he
defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
(1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).
Valentine Browne Lawless, second baron Cloncurry (1773-1853)
The son of the first baron (d. 1799), he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was
imprisoned for treason in 1799; upon his release in 1801 he entered Irish politics as a
supporter of Catholic Emancipation.
James Patrick Mahon [The O'Gorman Mahon] (1800-1891)
Irish politician and adventurer, educated at Trinity College Dublin; as an Irish MP for
Ennis (1847-52), Clare (1879-85), and Carlow (1887-91) he was an ally of Charles Stewart
Parnell.
Henry William Paget, first marquess of Anglesey (1768-1854)
Originally Bayly, educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford; he was MP
(1790-1810), commander of cavalry under Sir John Moore, lost a leg at Waterloo, and raised
to the peerage 1815; he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland (1828-29, 1830-33).
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular
Pleasures of Memory (1792),
Columbus (1810),
Jaqueline (1814), and
Italy (1822-28).
Frances Ann Taylor [née Vane] (d. 1835)
Whig hostess, the daughter of Sir Henry Vane, first baronet (1729–1794); in 1789 she
married the politician Michael Angelo Taylor.
