The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 28 September 1827
“Stapleton, Sept. 28th.
“. . . What a comfortable house this is, and how
capitally ‘dear Eddard’†
lives. . . . What a fool this good-natured Eddard is to be
eat and drunk out of house and harbour, and to be treated as he is. The
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men take his carriages
and horses to carry them to their shooting ground, and leave his fat mother to
waddle on foot, tho’ she can scarcely get ten yards. Then dinner being
announced always for seven, the men neither night have been home before 8, and
it has been ¼ to 9 that Dow. Julia* and
her ladies have been permitted to dine. Then these impertinent jades, the
Ladies Ashley, breakfast upstairs, never shew till
dinner, and even then have been sent to and waited for. . . . Dow.
Julia makes one eternally split with her voice and her words and
her criticism upon everybody. She is always at it and always right, and a good
honest soul as ever was. . . .”
William Harry Vane, first duke of Cleveland (1766-1842)
The son of Henry Vane, second earl of Darlington (d. 1792); educated at Christ Church,
Oxford, he was a lifelong friend of Henry Brougham and a notable sportsman.
William John Frederick Vane, third duke of Cleveland (1792-1864)
The son of Sir William Henry Vane, first Duke of Cleveland; he assumed the name of
Powlett. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and was a Whig MP for Winchelsea
(1812-15), Durham County (1815-31), St. Ives (1846-52), and Ludlow (1852-57).
