The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 15 February 1831
“15th.
“. . . Do you take any interest about Mrs. Heber, the widow of the Bishop of Calcutta? Because if you do, I can
tell you something. On her return overland from India, she picked up a Greek at
Milan and married him. Her attachment was, of course, to the sacred cause of
his country. They immediately started for that classic land; but unfortunately,
upon reaching Athens, it turned out that he was provided, not only with another
wife, but with a large family.
* Lord Althorp,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose first budget was very badly
received. |
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She arrived here
a few days ago, without a husband and nearly without a sou.”
Amelia Heber [née Shipley] (1789-1870)
The daughter of William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph; in 1809 she married Reginald
Heber, afterwards bishop of Calcutta. Thomas Creevey reports that returning from India she
was duped into a bigamous marriage with a Greek.
Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta (1783-1826)
English poet and Bishop of Calcutta, author of
Palestine: a Prize
Poem (1807) and the hymn “From Greenland's Icy Mountains.” He was the half-brother
of the book-collector Richard Heber.
John Charles Spencer, third earl Spencer (1782-1845)
English politician, son of the second earl (d. 1834); educated at Harrow and Trinity
College, Cambridge, he was Whig MP for Northamptonshire (1806-34) and chancellor of the
exchequer and leader of the lower house under Lord Grey (1830).
