The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 22 [March?] 1830
“22nd.
“. . . A capital party at old Salisbury’s* last night—the best I
ever saw there. I had a good deal of laugh and jaw with the Beau, who was in tip-top spirits and looked
better in the face than I ever saw him. . . . Arthur
Hill said to him:—‘Creevey is going to bring his pretty nieces here next
Thursday.’—‘Oh,’ said the
Beau, ‘the Miss Brandlings: I saw
them at Doncaster. I think they are the prettiest girls I ever
saw.’”
Thomas Creevey (1768-1838)
Whig politician aligned with Charles James Fox and Henry Brougham; he was MP for Thetford
(1802-06, 1807-18) Appleby (1820-26) and Downton (1831-32). He was convicted of libel in
1813.
Arthur Moyes William Sandys, second baron Sandys (1792-1860)
Irish military officer; he was the second son of Arthur Hill, second Marquess of
Downshire and Mary Sandys, Baroness Sandys; educated at Eton, he was MP for County Down
(1817-36) before he succeeded to the title.
