The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 October 1824
“Lambton, Oct. 24th.
“. . . I think I never saw Grey to greater advantage, nor Lady
Louisa to so much. As for Lady
Elizabeth, you never saw a creature so thin or altered in looks.
. . . The other night Ly. Wilton, she,
Hobhouse, Mills
and I had a jaw about life, youth and age. Ly. Elizth. was
all for childhood—that she shd. never be so happy again, and that if it
was not for her friends, she would as soon die as live. This may be
Grey gloom, but I am afraid it must be the behaviour
of Lord Lothian.”
Charles Grey, second earl Grey (1764-1845)
Whig statesman and lover of the Duchess of Devonshire; the second son of the first earl
(d. 1807), he was prime minister (1831-34).
John Cam Hobhouse, baron Broughton (1786-1869)
Founder of the Cambridge Whig Club; traveled with Byron in the orient, radical MP for
Westminster (1820); Byron's executor; after a long career in politics published
Some Account of a Long Life (1865) later augmented as
Recollections of a Long Life, 6 vols (1909-1911).
