[145] John Patrick, 3rd Marquis of Bute.
[146] Gwendoline Mary-Anne, eldest daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop.
[147] Prior.
[148] Sir Hedworth and Lady Elizabeth Williamson. The parents of both were first cousins of my mother.
[149] My mother’s first cousin, Henry Liddell, 1st Earl of Ravensworth.
[150] John Axel Fersen, making the tour of France at nineteen, was presented to the Dauphine, herself nineteen, in 1774. Throughout his friendship with her, the perfect reserve of a great gentleman and great lady was never broken.
[151] In 1879 I told this story to the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway, who took the trouble to verify facts and dates as to the Löwenjelms, &c., and found everything coincide.
[152] Mrs., then Lady Pease, died, universally beloved and regretted, in 1892.
[153] The 6th Earl of Fitzwilliam.
[154] Lady Frances Douglas, daughter of the 18th Earl of Morton.
[155] Eldest daughter and youngest son of Viscount Halifax.
[156] Edward Carr Glyn, afterwards Vicar of Kensington, son of the 1st Baron Wolverton.
[157] Mother of the 9th Duke of Bedford, a most charming and hospitable person. She died August 1874.
[158] Lord Moira was created Marquis of Hastings 1816, and died at Malta, November 26, 1826.
[159] “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then He openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction.”—Elihu in Job.
[160] Charles, 2nd Earl Grey.
[161] I have since heard this story as told by a Captain Campbell, and as having happened in Ireland near the Curragh. A similar story is told of two officers invited to the house of a Mr. T. near Dorchester. The appearance of the hostess at dinner was excused on plea of illness, and the younger guest, staring at the place where she would have sat, implored his elder friend to get him away from this devil-haunted place. An excuse of early parade was made, and as they were returning over the hills, the young man described the figure of “a lady with dripping hair wringing her hands.” Soon afterwards her body was found in the moat of the house. It was Mrs. T.
[162] My old schoolfellow, George, Equerry to the Prince of Wales, only son of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.
[163] Anthony Lionel Ashley, died Jan. 14, 1836.
[164] I afterwards heard this story confirmed in every particular by Lord Waterford’s widow.
[165] From “Central Italy.”
[166] Miss Wright
[167] Whose real name is Cincinnatus.
[168] From “Northern Italy.”
[169] From “Northern Italy.”
[170] From “Central Italy.”
[171] From “Central Italy.”
[172] From “Florence.”
[173] From “Florence.”
[174] From “Northern Italy.”
[175] From “Northern Italy.”
[176] From “Walks in London.”
[177] He died March 1888.
[178] Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
[179] Professor Forster has since assured me that this was impossible, for that hair will only continue to grow for a few hours after death.
[180] Daughter of the famous English tenor, John Braham.
[181] From “Walks in London.”
[182] From “Walks in London.”
[183] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[184] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[185] Story told me by Sir J. Shaw Lefevre.
[186] Afterwards Sir Charles Newton. He died Nov. 28, 1894.
[187] I need scarcely say that, as soon as possible thereafter, I eliminated all reference to Mr. Freeman, and all quotations from his works, from my books.
[188] From “Walks in London.”
[189] From “Walks in London.”
[190] Tom Taylor, editor of Punch, died 1880.
[191] Née Sabine Thellusson.
[192] Chancellor of the Exchequer.
[193] From “Walks in London.”
[194] From “Walks in London.”
[195] From “Walks in London.”
[196] From “Walks in London.”
[197] From “Walks in London.”
[198] From “Walks in London.”
[199] From “Walks in London.”
[200] William Reginald Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon.
[201] Sir Samuel Baker died Dec. 1893.
[202] This picture was sold to the National Gallery in 1880 for £9000, and is probably the cheapest purchase the Gallery ever made.
[203] Isabella, second daughter of Lord Henry Howard.
[204] Mr. Abraham Hayward, the well-known critic and essayist, who had been articled in early life to an obscure country attorney, always seemed to consider it the summum-bonum of life to dwell amongst the aristocracy as a man of letters: and in this he succeeded admirably, and was always witty and well-informed, usually satirical, and often very coarse.
[205] Fourth son of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.
[206] Eldest sister of Prince Christian.
[207] From “Walks in London.”
[208] Many years afterwards I saw her again: her name was Mrs. Macnabb.
[209] Lord Russell died May 28, 1878.
[210] Lady Gladys afterwards married the 4th Earl of Lonsdale.
[211] My mother’s first cousin, Susan, sixth daughter of the 1st Lord Ravensworth.
[212] Eliot Yorke died Dec. 21, 1878—a bitter family sorrow.
[213] From “Walks in London.”
[214] Anne-Florence, Baroness Lucas, Dowager Countess Cowper, elder daughter and co-heir of Thomas Philip, Earl De Grey. She died in 1880.
[215] P.S.—The unpublished letters of Lady Mary Cooke show that this local tradition is incorrect. Lord Tavistock’s accident occurred far away, and he lingered afterwards for three weeks; but it is true that the family never lived at Houghton after his death.
[216] Lord Hinton afterwards used to play a barrel-organ in the streets of London, with an inscription over it in large letters, “I am the only Viscount Hinton.” He would play it for hours opposite the windows of Lord Powlett in Berkeley Square.
[217] Mr. E. A. Freeman—whose lengthy and disproportionate writings were never wholly without interest—died March 1892.
[218] Blanche, Countess of Sandwich, died March 1894.
[219] Letters of Alexis de Tocqueville to Mrs. Grote.
[220] Sir John Acton was commander-in-chief of the land and sea forces of Naples, and was for several years Neapolitan Prime Minister. His wife was the daughter of his brother, General Acton, and he had by her two sons (the younger of whom became Cardinal), and a daughter, afterwards Lady Throckmorton.
[221] At Sudeley Castle, where “the Mother of the English Reformation” is buried, I wrote for Mrs. Dent:—
[222] Emma, daughter of John Brocklehurst, Esq., of Hurdsfield, the authoress of an admirable work on the “Annals of Winchcombe and Sudeley.”
[223] The great feature in views from Stoke Rectory.
[224] The name is thus spelt in the epitaph on the tomb of Richard Pendrill at St. Giles in the Fields.
[225] Henry Strutt, who succeeded his father as 2nd Lord Belper in 1880, married Lady Margaret, sixth daughter of the 2nd Earl of Leicester.
[226] Frederick Arthur, second son of the 14th Earl of Derby, married Constance, eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Clarendon.
[227] He succeeded his grandfather as 5th Viscount Gage in 1877.
[228] Frederick, third son of the 6th Earl of Tankerville. See vol. ii.
[229] Eldest son of the Hon. Colonel Augustus Liddell, married Christina Catherine, daughter of C. E. Fraser Tytler, Esq., of Sanquhar, the authoress of “Mistress Judith,” “Jonathan,” &c. See vol. iii.
[230] Helen, daughter of Sir John Warrender, wife of the 11th Earl of Haddington.
[231] Katherine, third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Eldon.
[232] Coleridge.
[233] Lady Harriet Elliot, sixth daughter of the 1st Earl of Ravensworth.
[234] E. Waller.
[235] Aldena (Kingscote), wife of Sir Archibald Hope.
[236] General Philip Stanhope, fifth son of Walter Spencer Stanhope of Cannon Hall, celebrated for his kindly nature and pleasant conversation. Died 1879.
[237] Charles Nevison, Viscount Andover, son of the 15th Earl of Suffolk, died January 11, 1800.
[238] Lord Eslington, afterwards 2nd Earl of Ravensworth.
[239] See my visit in 1866.
[240] Afterwards Mrs. C. Warren.
[241] Lady Charlotte Loftus, eldest daughter of John, 2nd Marquis of Ely.
[242] Eldest daughter of William Pitt, Earl Amherst.
[243] Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes, died 1853.
[244] Eldest sister of the 1st Earl of Lathom.
[245] Egerton Warburton, Esq.
[246] A family home. In 1807 Thomas Tatton of Wythenshawe married my mother’s first cousin, Emma, daughter of the Hon. John Grey.
[247] Harriet Susan, eldest daughter of Robert Townley Parker of Cuerden Hall.
[248] Fourth daughter of the 6th Earl of Albemarle.
[249] Second son of the 3rd Lord Lyttelton and Lady Sarah Spencer.
[250] Lady Agneta Montagu was one of the daughters of Susan, Countess of Hardwicke, my mother’s first cousin.
[251] Pascal.
[252] Sotherton Peckham Branthwayt Micklethwait.
[253] Third daughter of the 2nd Earl of Arran by his third wife, Elizabeth Underwood.
[254] Dr. William Thompson, Archbishop of York, married Miss Zoë Skene, a beautiful Greek.
[255] Adelaide Horatia Seymour, Countess Spencer, who died October 1877.
[256] The well-known architect.
[257] From “Walks in London.”
[258] Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson (“Book of Recollections”) gives a most attractive account of this lady, which may be summed up in his dictum “It is impossible for a daughter of Eve to be a better woman than Geraldine Jewsbury.”
[259] Elizabeth Jane, daughter of the first Lord Athlumney.
[260] From “Walks in London.”
[261] Helen Matilda, daughter of Rev. Henry Chaplin, afterwards 5th Countess of Radnor.
[262] Mr. Froude died Oct. 1894.
[263] Mrs. Davidson of Ridley Hall. See vols. ii. and iii.
[264] From “Walks in London.”
[265] I have frequently seen Mrs. L.’s pictures in the Academy. I had often been told of the strange likeness between Napoleon III. and myself.
[266] Author of “Unspoken Sermons,” “David Elginbrod,” &c.
[267] Died June 20, 1889.
[268] The house of Joseph Pease, M.P., afterwards Sir Joseph Pease.
[269] Afterwards Lord Rowton.
[270] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[271] All the best pictures at Burghley have since been sold at Christie’s.
[272] The same amusement was in vogue during the parties of the second Empire at Compiègne, where the worst of the many bad organ-grinders was the Emperor himself.
[273] Francis-Charles, 9th Duke, a great archaeologist.
[274] Hungerford Crewe, Lord Crewe, died Jan. 1894.
[275] The Roman sculptress, Gibson’s favourite pupil. See vol. iii.
[276] Widow of John Singleton Copley, three times Lord Chancellor.
[277] Told me by Mrs. Henry Forester.
[278] Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.
[279] See Macpherson’s “Memorials of Mrs. Jameson.”
[280] Fräulein von Weling afterwards translated my “Life and Letters of Baroness Bunsen” into German, and it has thus had a wide circulation in Germany.