The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 27 April 1822
“Brooks’s, April 27th.
“I had a long conversation here to-day with Thanet.‡ I must say,
‘altho’’ it might appear to anybody but you parasitical in
his member to say so, that in agreeableness and
honesty he surpasses all his
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order—easy. To-morrow I dine
with Sefton. Here is little Derby sitting by my side—very, very old in looks, but as merry as ever. Here is
Brougham, too, but in a most disgruntled, unsatisfactory state. His manners to me are
barely civil, but I take no notice, presuming that time will bring him round,
and if it don’t—I can’t help it.”
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).
Anne Amelia Coke [née Keppel] (1803-1844)
The daughter of William Charles Keppel, fourth earl of Albemarle; when she married Thomas
William Coke in 1822 she was younger than some of his granddaughters. In 1843 she married
Edward Ellice.
Sir Henry Digby (1770-1842)
The son of William Digby; he was a naval captain who fought at Trafalgar.
Lady Jane Elizabeth Digby [née Coke] (d. 1863)
The daughter of Thomas William Coke, first Earl of Leicester; in 1796 she married Charles
Nevinson Howard, son of the Earl of Suffolk; after his death she married in 1806 Admiral
Sir Henry Digby.
Edward Smith Stanley, twelfth earl of Derby (1752-1834)
Grandson of the eleventh earl (d. 1776); educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge,
he was a Whig MP for Lancashire, a friend of Charles James Fox, nephew of John Burgoyne,
and a committed sportsman.
