The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 10 October 1820
“House of Lords, 2 o’clock, October 10th.
“This cursed Flynn is still going on. He has perjured himself three or four
times over, and his evidence and himself are both gone to the devil. He is
evidently a crack-brained sailor. . . . he has fainted away once, and been
obliged to be carried out.”
“Brooks’s, 5 o’clock.
“. . . Lady
Jersey stopt me in the street to reproach me for never coming to
her, so I went last night and found all the political grandees there. Brougham, of course, was one, and he and I came
away together. . . .”
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).
John Turner Flynn (1790 c.-1840 fl.)
Naval officer who was captain of Queen Caroline's yacht; he was a witness in her trials
in 1820, and in 1840 was convicted of forgery and transported for life.
