The Creevey Papers
Lord Folkestone to Thomas Creevey, 5 April 1814
“April 5, 1814.
“. . . . If you should happen to hear in the world
that I am going to be married to Mildmay’s sister, you need not put yourself to the trouble to
deny it. I have not any pretensions to suppose that Mrs. Taylor interests herself enough about me to presume to
write to her, but I wish you would tell her from me that I should have been
glad to have had an opportunity of informing her in person how immutable with
me is the power of black eyes.‡ . . .”
Sir Henry St. John Carew St. John Mildmay, fourth baronet (1787-1848)
English dandy, the son of the third baronet and an associate of Beau Brummel; he was MP
for Winchester (1807-1818). In 1814 he was involved with a crim. con. case with the Earl of
Rosebery; he later became insolvent and shot himself in his residence in Belgrave
Square.
Frances Ann Taylor [née Vane] (d. 1835)
Whig hostess, the daughter of Sir Henry Vane, first baronet (1729–1794); in 1789 she
married the politician Michael Angelo Taylor.
