The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 8 April 1836
“Stoke, April 8.
“. . . Our family here [the
Seftons] was put rather in a fuss yesterday by
receiving a letter from Lady Craven,
informing Lady Sefton officially and at
some length that her daughter’s
intended marriage with
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Tom Brand* was broken off by the young
lady herself, who found out at last (for the wedding day was very near) that
she really could not like him enough to marry him. Her principal objection
against him is that he never opens his mouth and that he proscribes any
connection with a book. A lively, interesting companion, it must be
admitted.† Mrs. Norton has quitted
her husband, upon a quarrel about a man whose name I forget. She is not,
however, gone off with this man, but gone to the
Sheridans.
James Abercromby, first baron Dunfermline (1776-1858)
The son of Lt.-Gen Sir Ralph Abercromby; he was MP for Midhurst (1807), Calne (1812-30)
and Edinburgh (1832), judge-advocate general (1827) and speaker of the House of Commons
(1835-39); he was raised to the peerage in 1839.
Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth duke of Norfolk (1765-1842)
Educated at the English College at Douai, in 1815 he succeeded his third cousin, Charles
Howard, eleventh duke (d. 1815), and took his seat in Parliament after passage of the Roman
Catholic Relief Bill of 1829.
