The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 May 1834
“May 7th.
“. . . I thought the
Beau looked horridly at the levee; but his uniform of the Blues
plays the devil with him. He should be always in red. You will see by your
paper that there was a split last night in our Cabinet, between Stanley and Lord John
Russell—the latter, of course, declaring for more popular
and
* Sir James
Graham, Mr.
Stanley, Lord Ripon, and
the Duke of Richmond had resigned
office owing to disapproval of the Irish Church Bill. † Wife of the 1st
earl, died in 1822. ‡ Her youngest daughter, married 1st to
Captain Bettesworth, R.N.,
2nd to the Right Hon. Edward
Ellice, M.P. She died in 1832. § Edward
Ellice, afterwards of Invergarry and M.P., married in
1834 Miss Katherine Balfour of
Balbirnie, who died in 1864. In 1867 he married the widow of
Alexander Speirs of Elderslie, and died in
1880. |
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healing measures towards Ireland. . . . Tavistock* told me he had long seen this split
would come, but that he did not think the crisis was come for absolute
separation between the different parties in the Cabinet, tho’ he thought
it must come if Stanley and others
did not relax. I am for having Stanley severely whipped:
it would do him a power of good. . . .
“When I was at Sefton’s to-day he said:—‘I have a
proposition to make to you, old fellow, which is that you dine here every
day that you are not engaged elsewhere.’ To which I was pleased
to accede, and behaved very handsomely by declaring that I did not consider the
contract as binding for any year after the present one, without a renewal on
his part of the proposal.”
George Edmund Byron Bettesworth (1780-1808)
Captain Bettesworth of the Royal Navy married Lady Hannah Althea Whitbread, daughter of
General Charles Grey, first Earl Grey. He was killed at Bergen 25 May 1808 while in command
of the Tartar. He was a descendant of the Travanion family (Marchand). Sophia Trevanion had
married Admiral John Byron.
Edward Ellice (1783-1863)
British merchant with the Hudson's Bay Company and Whig MP for Coventry (1818-26,
1830-63); he was a friend of Sir Francis Burdett and John Cam Hobhouse.
Edward Ellice the younger (1810-1880)
Son of the politician and nephew of Earl Grey; educated at Eton and Trinity College,
Cambridge, he was a Whig MP and landowner.
Katherine Jane Ellice [née Balfour] (1792-1859)
The daughter of General Robert Balfour of Balbirnie, Fife; in 1834 she married Edward
Ellice (1810–1880) and was a political hostess and diarist.
Sir James Robert George Graham, second baronet (1792-1861)
Of Netherby, dandy, member of Brook's Club, Whig politician, and First Lord of the
Admiralty (1830); he published
Corn and Currency (1826) and was home
secretary (1841-46).
Charles Grey, first earl Grey (1729-1807)
Military officer who distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War and American War of
Independence; he was made a peer in 1801.
Frederick John Robinson, first earl of Ripon (1782-1859)
Educated at Harrow and St. John's College, Cambridge, he was a Tory MP for Carlow
(1806-07) and Ripon (1807-27), Chancellor of the Exchequer (1823-27), and prime minister
(1827-28) in succession to Canning.
Francis Russell, seventh duke of Bedford (1788-1861)
Son of the sixth Duke (d. 1839); he took an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1808
and served as Whig MP for Peterborough between 1809 and 1812 and for Bedfordshire between
1812 and 1832. He succeeded to the title in 1833.
John Russell, first earl Russell (1792-1878)
English statesman, son of John Russell sixth duke of Bedford (1766-1839); he was author
of
Essay on the English Constitution (1821) and
Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe (1824) and was Prime Minister (1865-66).
