Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Augusta Leigh to Francis Hodgson, 14 September 1814
B. being very lazy, I have requested and
obtained permission to write to you, and can only plead in excuse for proposing
myself as his substitute, that I have something to say about pupils, and a
letter to enclose on the same interesting subject. I have mentioned your wish
to several of my friends.1 I shall hope very soon to
hear that you are as happy as I wish you and yours to be. B. desires to be most
kindly remembered. Newstead is quite his own again, and Mr. Claughton has forfeited £25,000. Of
future plans I really can say nothing,
1 This refers to his intended marriage. |
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they are in such a glorious
state of uncertainty. I hope he will write to you of them himself; in the
meantime
Believe me yours most sincerely,
Thomas Claughton (1774 c.-1842)
Educated at Rugby, he was a Warrington solicitor and MP for Newton, Lancashire (1818-25)
who agreed to purchase Newstead Abbey in 1812 and then paid the forfeit. He was the father
of Thomas Legh Claughton (1808-1892), bishop of St Albans.
Hon. Augusta Mary Leigh [née Byron] (1783-1851)
Byron's half-sister; the daughter of Amelia Darcy, Baroness Conyers, she married
Lieutenant-Colonel George Leigh on 17 August 1807.
