The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 4 October 1812
“Fornham, Sunday, 4th October.
“Diddy†
has no letter again to-day from Roscoe,‡ but he expects one by express in the course of the
evening. I should not be least surprised if the Liverpool election did not take
place till to-morrow week, and that in that event I might safely stay over the
Thetford one on Thursday. . . . This express, whenever it comes from
Roscoe, will bring with it, of course, some of
Brog-ham’s ingenuous remarks. . .
. Bernard Howard is deeply affected with
the apparent treachery of my colleague
[Brougham], and his evident wishes to give me the
go-by; but we shall see what we shall see.”
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).
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.
Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth duke of Norfolk (1765-1842)
Educated at the English College at Douai, in 1815 he succeeded his third cousin, Charles
Howard, eleventh duke (d. 1815), and took his seat in Parliament after passage of the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill of 1829.
William Roscoe (1753-1831)
Historian, poet, and man of letters; author of
Life of Lorenzo di
Medici (1795) and
Life and Pontificate of Leo X (1805). He
was Whig MP for Liverpool (1806-1807) and edited the
Works of Pope,
10 vols (1824).
