The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 12 February 1828
“Brooks’s, 12th.
“. . . Sefton is
cracking his jokes to the right and left to a numerous audience, all at the
expense of Huskisson and Dudley, as if he had not been their supporter for
these six months past. I really can’t approve of him.
Huskisson fell 50 per cent. in last night’s jaw,
and the Beau gained a corresponding degree
of elevation. In short the latter will do capitally: his frank, blunt and yet
sensible manner will beat the shuffling, lying
Huskisson and Brougham school out of the field. . . . My sincere opinion
is—and I beg to record it thus early—that the
Beau will do something for the
Catholics of Ireland.”
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).
William Huskisson (1770-1830)
English politician and ally of George Canning; privately educated, he was a Tory MP for
Morpeth (1796-1802), Liskeard (1804-07), Harwich (1807-12), Chichester (1812-23), and
Liverpool (1823-30). He died in railway accident.
John William Ward, earl of Dudley (1781-1833)
The son of William Ward, third Viscount Dudley (d. 1823); educated at Edinburgh and
Oxford, he was an English MP, sometimes a Foxite Whig and sometimes Canningite Tory, who
suffered from insanity in his latter years.
