Mabell, Countess of Airlie: In Whig Society 1775-1818: Contents

Scottish barrister who was a Whig MP for Portsmouth (1783-84, 1790-1806); after defending the political radicals Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall in 1794 he was lord chancellor in the short-lived Grenville-Fox administration (1806-07). Scottish barrister who was a Whig MP for Portsmouth (1783-84, 1790-1806); after defending the political radicals Hardy, Tooke, and Thelwall in 1794 he was lord chancellor in the short-lived Grenville-Fox administration (1806-07).

REFERENCES TO:

Chapter II. ¶ 5

Chapter III. ¶ 9

Sir Robert Adair to Lady Melbourne, 27 September 1802 ¶ 4

Frederick Foster to Lady Melbourne, [November 1802] ¶ 1

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Author: Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956

Title: In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921).

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