The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 27 February 1828
“27th.
“. . . Dined at Lord
Grey’s last night, where Lord
Durham and Bob Adair were
the only company. Lord Rosslyn and
Lady Georgiana Bathurst came in the
evening. Grey and my lady were both very much amused at my
making Lord Durham tell who dined at Brougham’s Cabinet
dinner last Sunday. Durham was one, and Sefton and the Duke of
Leinster, Lord Stuart
(Sir Charles that was), old
Essex and four Scotch barristers. So much for a Cabinet dinner
by a person who says he is at the head of 200 gentlemen of the House of
Commons, and who could only muster one member of that body
(Sefton) on this great occasion.”
Sir Robert Adair (1763-1855)
English diplomat; he was Whig MP for Appleby (1799-1802) and Camelford (1802-12), a
friend and disciple of Charles James Fox, and ambassador to Constantinople, 1809-10. He was
ridiculed by Canning and Ellis in
The Rovers.
Georgina Bathurst [née Lennox] (1765-1841)
The daughter of Lieutenant-General Lord George Henry Lennox; in 1789 she married Henry
Bathurst, third Earl Bathurst.
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).
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).
Charles Stuart, baron Stuart de Rothesay (1779-1845)
Diplomat and art collector; he was minister at Lisbon (1810-14) and ambassador at Paris
(1815-24). A grandson of Lord Bute and early friend of Henry Brougham, he was raised to the
peerage in 1828.
