The Creevey Papers
Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 13 October 1828
“Kingstown, Oct. 13.
“. . . My eye! the quantity of people I saw
yesterday and the day before that I knew, who pressed me to come and see them,
or to visit others they would write to. Certainly, there is nothing like this
Irish civility and hospitality. To think of Lord
Plunket coming up, shaking hands and apologising for not having
called on me as he was only in town for a few hours to attend a Privy Council.
. . . I’m very sorry I could not accept Grattan’s invitation for yesterday. . . . Then the
Knight of Kerry, who franks this, has
written to Lord Landaff, saying he has
nearly persuaded me to visit him at Thomastown—the place described by
Swift. . . .”
Henry Grattan (1746-1820)
Irish statesman and patriot; as MP for Dublin he supported Catholic emancipation and
opposed the Union.
Thomas Spring Rice, first Baron Monteagle (1790-1866)
The son of Stephen Edward of Limerick; he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and
was MP for Limerick City (1820-32) and Cambridge borough (1832-39). He was chancellor of
the exchequer (1835-39) and contributed to the
Edinburgh
Review.
Edward Stanley, first Baron Monteagle (1460 c.-1523)
The son of Thomas Stanley, first earl of Derby; fighting under Thomas Howard, earl of
Surrey, he was instrumental in the English victory at Flodden Field.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Dean of St Patrick's, Scriblerian satirist, and author of
Battle of the
Books with
Tale of a Tub (1704),
Drapier
Letters (1724),
Gulliver's Travels (1726), and
A Modest Proposal (1729).
