The Creevey Papers
Eleanor Creevey to Thomas Creevey, 7 November 1805
“Nov. 7, 1805.
“. . . [The Prince’s] sorrow [for Nelson’s death] might help to prevent his coming to
dinner at the Pavillion or to Johnstone’s ball. He did neither, but stayed with
Mrs. Fitz; and you may imagine the
disappointment of the Johnstones. The girl grin’d it
off with the captain, but Johnstone had a face of perfect
horror all night, and I think he was very near insane. I once lamented
Lord Nelson to him, and he said:—‘Oh
shocking: and to come at such an unlucky time!’ . . .”
Maria Anne Fitzherbert [née Smythe] (1756-1837)
The consort of the Prince of Wales whom she married in 1785 as her third husband; the
marriage was regarded as illegitimate since she was a Catholic.
George Lindsay Johnstone (1764-1813)
He was British Resident at the court of Lucknow in India, afterwards MP for Aldburgh
(1800-02) and Hedon in Yorkshire (1802-13).
Horatio Nelson, viscount Nelson (1758-1805)
Britain's naval hero who destroyed the French fleet in the Battle of the Nile (1798) and
defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar (1805) in which action he was
killed.
