Part 14

Napoleon III., 82, 90, 140.

Nathan, Isaac, 36, 42.

Neville, Hon. George, 158.

Newport Market Refuge, 195.

-- Army Training School, 195.

Nicholas I., 184.

North Pole, expedition to (1773), 44.

O’Connor, T. P., 246.

Opie, Mrs., 218.

Palgrave, Francis, 219.

Palgraves, the, 219.

Palmerston, Lord, 58, 68, 105, 123, 126, 181.

-- death of, 127.

-- resignation of, 118.

Palmerston, Lady, 7, 78.

Panshanger, 7, 125.

Papal Bull (1850), 117.

Paper Duties Bill, 113.

Parnell Commission, 205.

Peel, Eliza, 56.

-- General, 225.

-- Georgiana, Lady, 93.

-- Julia, 55, 56.

-- Lord, 56.

-- Sir Robert, 52, 55, 58, 141, 161, 167, 172, 173, 176, 182, 185, 186.

-- William, 61.

Pembroke, Lord, 46.

Pembroke Lodge, 77.

Persigny, 112.

Petersham, 83.

Pitt, William, 186.

Political secrets, 165.

-- standards, 86.

Poyntz, Louisa, 4.

-- Stephen, 3.

Punctuality, 212.

Ribblesdale, Lord, 69, 84.

Richardson, Miss, 35.

Richmond, 180.

Rideout, J. C., 45.

Ripon, Lord and Lady, 170, 175.

Rogers, Samuel, 9, 66, 80, 107, 171, 180.

Rosebery, Lord, 181, 209.

-- Lady, 231.

Russell, Earl, 59, 67, 68, 84, 119, 172.

-- on Italy, 87.

-- Prime Minister, 89.

-- resignation of (1855), 86.

Russell, Hon. Rollo, 93.

-- Lady Agatha, 84.

-- Lady John, 84, 172.

-- Lady Victoria, 67.

-- Mr., 32.

Rutland, Duke of, 210.

Salisbury (Lord Robert Cecil), Marquis of, 221, 224.

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of, 178.

Sheridan, 8.

Shiel, 183.

Sketchley, Rev. M., 48.

Snaresbrook Convalescent Home, 196.

South African War, 238.

Spence, Miss, 35.

Spencer, first Earl, 1.

-- Herbert, 95.

-- Lady, 3.

Sutherland, Duchess of, 171.

Tait, Dr., 231.

Tankerville, Lady, 101, 129.

Taylor, Sir Henry, 98.

-- Tom, 127.

“Temple of Peace,” The, 212.

Tennyson, 92.

Thackeray, 80.

_Times_, the, 117, 147.

Torlonia, Duchess of, 55.

Tyndall, Prof., 231.

Unpunctuality, 122, 125.

_Vathek_, 17.

Victoria, H.M. Queen, 57, 60, 92, 137, 143, 152, 166, 181, 184.

Villa Garbarius, 90.

Viney, Sir James, 131.

Walmer Castle, 126.

Walsh, Miss, 19.

Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 39.

Wellington, Duke of, 78, 103, 166, 167, 171, 174, 176, 184.

Westmoreland, Lady, 9.

White, Miss Lydia, 35.

Willoughby, Lady, 101, 103, 129.

Wilson, Sir R., 53.

Wolseley, Lord, 237.

Women in politics, 201.

Woolbeding, 141.

Wyndham, Lewis, 131, 132.

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FOOTNOTES

[1] Lady Caroline Lamb died in 1828, and Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister in 1835.

[2] The second Lady Aberdeen died in 1833, and Lord Aberdeen became Prime Minister in 1852.

[3] Lady Rosebery died in 1890, and Lord Rosebery became Prime Minister in 1894.

[4] Her husband was William Lamb, afterwards Lord Melbourne. He was Prime Minister in 1834 and 1836-41.

[5] See p. 101.

[6] Lord Melbourne died 24th November 1848.

[7] See p. 40.

[8] The correspondence is printed in C. Kegan Paul’s _Life of William Godwin_.

[9] She told Lady Morgan she loved him chiefly because he stood by her when no one else did.

[10] Lady Melton in _Dr. Lindsay_; Lady Clara in _Lionel Hastings_; Lady Bellenden in _Greville_.

[11] 2nd August 1826.

[12] Disraeli describes Lady Caroline as Lady Monteagle in _Venetia_, and Mrs. Humphry Ward very skilfully uses Lady Caroline’s career as the motive of her novel, _The Marriage of William Ashe_.

[13] Printed in A. H. Markham’s _Northward Ho!_, 1879.

[14] He was under eight years old, and Miranda herself was barely nine.

[15] But his fatherly affection leads him to say, in regard to writing to him, “Write bad rather than not write at all.”

[16] Fuller died in 1841. His wife survived him until 23rd September 1869.

[17] He did not succeed to the Baronetcy until 1830.

[18] From lines by Mrs. Abdy, appended to an engraving of Lawrence’s portrait of Lady Peel.

[19] Louis-Philippe and Queen Amélie.

[20] In June 1831 Mrs. Bulwer Lytton heard a ragged newspaper boy cry:

“Good news for the poor! Great and glorious speech of His Most Gracious Majesty William the Fourth! The Reform Bill will pass. Then you’ll have your beef and mutton for a penny a pound. And then you’ll be as fine as peacocks for a mere trifle. To say nothing of ale at a penny a quart.”

[21] The Mintos belonged to the Scottish Presbyterian Church.

[22] Afterwards Lord Amberley.

[23] Lady Georgiana Peel.

[24] Known to later generations as Willis’s Rooms.

[25] In 1814.

[26] The poem appears in _Weeds and Wildflowers_, by E. G. L. B., a volume privately printed at Paris in 1826.

[27] 1881.

[28] In 1860.

[29] It is now at Broadlands. Although the background is unfinished it is a fine and characteristic piece of work.

[30] 3rd September 1847.

[31] Now the Naval and Military Club.

[32] 21st January 1868.

[33] 1868.

[34] 29th July 1837.

[35] Another time she writes of Disraeli as “our political pet.”

[36] Now 29 Park Lane.

[37] Afterwards Emperor Napoleon III.

[38] An allusion to the passing by the Commons of the Jews’ Oaths of Abjuration Bill on 3rd July.

[39] Of the Rothschilds.

[40] An allusion to the Whitebait Dinner at Greenwich.

[41] Anthony de Rothschild had been created a Baronet at the New Year.

[42] Wife of Baron James de Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild firm in Paris.

[43] Worth Park, Sussex, the seat of Mrs. Montefiore, Lady de Rothschild’s mother.

[44] The well-known business house of Messrs. Rothschild in the City of London.

[45] The late Lord Rothschild.

[46] In 1867.

[47] Cf. Lord Ronald Gower, _Reminiscences_.

[48] 24th January 1873.

[49] 9th January 1873.

[50] Headmaster of Eton.

[51] Queen Victoria.

[52] The Lord Chancellor.

[53] See p. 56.

[54] A picture showing an unusual side of the stern disciplinarian. He was sixty-eight.

[55] Mr. Gladstone was Vice-President of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint.

[56] By Samuel Warren.

[57] The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), politician and book collector. His bequest of books to the British Museum forms the Grenville Library.

[58] Minister for War and the Colonies. Afterwards Lord Derby, and Prime Minister in 1852, 1858, and 1866.

[59] Frederick William IV.

[60] With whom Mrs. Gladstone soon formed a lasting friendship.

[61] The Duke of Sutherland’s London house, now the London Museum.

[62] 16th June 1842.

[63] She was appointed to the office in 1842, and held it until 1851.

[64] The Princess Royal, afterwards Empress Frederick of Germany.

[65] Her sister, Lady Lyttelton.

[66] Born 18th October 1842. Afterwards Mrs. Wickham.

[67] Born 1844.

[68] Born 1845.

[69] He had gone to London on the 16th.

[70] Nicholas I.

[71] Now Lord Gladstone.

[72] He visited and made notes concerning 5530 churches in England and Wales. _Notes on the Churches of Kent_, by Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., 1877.

[73] 29th July 1864.

[74] Mr. Gladstone died three weeks after the letter was received.

[75] They consisted chiefly of boys whose father or mother had died in the London Hospital.

[76] Cf. her “Cry of the Children,” first printed in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, August 1843.

[77] 26th November 1879.

[78] Afterwards Edward VII.

[79] Now George V.

[80] The surname Bannerman was taken when her husband inherited, under his uncle’s will in 1872, a considerable fortune and the Castle Belmont property in Forfar.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Index not systematically checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references, but the following discrepancies were found: the index reference to “D’Orsay, Count, 132” was misprinted as “133” and has been changed here; “Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Duke of” appears in the index, but the name does not appear anywhere else; and the index reference to “Villa Garbarius” is printed as “Villa Garbarino” on page 90.