Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries
Samuel Rogers to Sarah Rogers, 23 August 1839
‘Holland House: 23rd August, 1839.
‘My dear Sarah,—. . . Last week I passed a night at the Castle at
Richmond with the Hollands, and next day
saw the Dunlops, and also Mrs. Fox,
who was there on her way to a dentist in town. Miss
Willoughby and Miss Marsden were with her,
and she looked as well as she could do with a bad cold. I passed two nights ![]()
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too at Walton with the Tankervilles, and took a peep at Hampton Court. I have twice
drawn upon Edmund and Mrs. Allen,
once to dine Lady Holland and once the
Carlisles, who have returned from
Italy. Last night the Queen dined at
Stafford House, and I went in the evening. Who should call one day between
eleven and twelve, but Lady Essex and
Miss J.! They are frightened at the distance of
Bareges, which Dr. Chambers recommended,
but mean to go somewhere next week, and have set their hearts upon meeting you
at Paris. They have bought a very small britzka, too small they fear to carry
anything, and with a maid and a courier mean to make their way. They have
parted with every face in the house, and felt never so free and happy as when
the last went out of it. Maltby went
to-day to Broadstairs, having no alternative, his maid wishing to go to
Scotland. I shall follow him in a week or so, when I have remained a little
while here. Millingen and Wilkinson are still here, and I see them
often. The other day I asked the Sharpes, and M., and W., and Eastlake, and Stanfield,
and Maltby, and Dr.
Lepsius to dinner at a venture, and they all came.
Mary, and Patty, and
Sarah, and Dan are gone to the
sea near Liverpool, and wish the newspapers sent there. Farewell, my dear
Sarah; give best remembrances to your fellow-traveller, and believe me to be
ever yours affectionately,
Charles Augustus Bennet, fifth earl of Tankerville (1776-1859)
Son of Charles Bennet, the fourth earl (d. 1822); educated at Eton, he was Whig MP for
Steyning (1803-06), Knaresborough (1806-18), and Berwick-on-Tweed) (1820-22); in 1806 he
married Armandine Sophie Leonie Corisande de Gramont.
William Frederick Chambers (1786-1855)
The son of the orientalist William Chambers (d. 1793), educated at Westminster and
Trinity College, Cambridge; he was physician to St. George's Hospital (1816-39) and was
physician-in-ordinary to William IV.
Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793-1865)
English painter educated at Charterhouse; he was a student of Benjamin Robert Haydon, a
member of the Plymouth Institute, and was director of the National Gallery in London
(1850-65).
Elizabeth Fox, Lady Holland [née Vassall] (1771 c.-1845)
In 1797 married Henry Richard Fox, Lord Holland, following her divorce from Sir Godfrey
Webster; as mistress of Holland House she became a pillar of Whig society.
Henry Richard Fox, third baron Holland (1773-1840)
Whig politician and literary patron; Holland House was for many years the meeting place
for reform-minded politicians and writers. He also published translations from the Spanish
and Italian;
Memoirs of the Whig Party was published in 1852.
George Howard, sixth earl of Carlisle (1773-1848)
Son of the fifth earl (d. 1825); he was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, wrote
for the
Anti-Jacobin, and was MP for Morpeth (1795-1806) and
Cumberland (1806-28).
Karl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884)
Prussian archaeologist who made an expedition to Egypt with Champollion in 1828-1829, and
another in 1842-46.
William Maltby (1764-1854)
A schoolmate and life-long friend of Samuel Rogers; he was a London solicitor and a
member of the King of Clubs. In 1809 he succeeded Richard Porson as principal librarian of
the London Institution.
James Millingen (1774-1845)
Educated at Westminster, he worked at the French mint and became an authority on coins
and antiquities based in Paris and Italy; he was the father of Julius Millingen, physician
at Missolonghi.
Samuel Rogers (1763-1855)
English poet, banker, and aesthete, author of the ever-popular
Pleasures of Memory (1792),
Columbus (1810),
Jaqueline (1814), and
Italy (1822-28).
Sarah Rogers (1772-1855)
Of Regent's Park. the younger sister of the poet Samuel Rogers; she lived with her
brother Henry in Highbury Terrace.
Samuel Sharpe (1799-1881)
Banker and Egyptologist; he was the nephew of the poet Samuel Rogers and brother of the
geologist Daniel Sharpe.
Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867)
After service in the Navy he became a scene-painter for Drury Lane and was afterwards a
marine and landscape painter and Royal Academician (1835).
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875)
Egyptologist, author of
Topography of Thebes and General View of
Egypt (1835) and other works.
