The Creevey Papers
Eleanor Creevey to Thomas Creevey, 10 July 1806
“July 10, 1806.
“. . . Hester*
and Sheridan dined with us yesterday, as
well as Harry Scott, and we were
extremely sociable and agreeable all the evening, until Lord and Lady Howick,†
General Grey and Charlotte Hughes added to our party. Poor
Charlotte! was rather ‘in the basket,’ for
you know Ogles and Greys do not take
much pains to make a stranger comfortable; but old Sherry
with his usual good taste was very attentive to her. . . . Lord
Howick was in better spirits and very amiable, no doubt owing to
his improved hopes about Mr. Fox. He had
been that morning for the first time convinced that he was materially better,
both from the opinion of Vaughan and
from having seen him—that his looks were wonderfully improved. He is sure
his body and legs are lessened and Mr. Fox said himself,
‘whatever my disease has been, I am convinced it is much abated,
and I think I shall do again.’ . . . Lord
and Lady Howick and the General went away before 12, and
then Sherry, who had been very good at dinner and most
agreeable all the evening, seem’d to have a little hankering after a
broiled bone . . . so in due time he had it.
Charles James Fox (1749-1806)
Whig statesman and the leader of the Whig opposition in Parliament after his falling-out
with Edmund Burke.
Charles Grey, first earl Grey (1729-1807)
Military officer who distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War and American War of
Independence; he was made a peer in 1801.
Charles Grey, second earl Grey (1764-1845)
Whig statesman and lover of the Duchess of Devonshire; the second son of the first earl
(d. 1807), he was prime minister (1831-34).
Sir Henry Halford, first baronet (1766-1844)
The second son of James Vaughan MD of Leicester; a court physician, he was created
baronet in 1814 and was president of the College of Physicians (1820-1844).
Harry Harmood Scott (d. 1832)
He was captain in the Light Infantry of S. Hampshire (1798), paymaster of the Navy
(1806), and British consul in Bordeaux (1818-24). He was a friend of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Anglo-Irish playwright, author of
The School for Scandal (1777),
Whig MP and ally of Charles James Fox (1780-1812).
