V.
Val Anzasca, ii. 109.
Valdagno, iv. 321.
Vallombrosa, ii. 84; iii. 381; vi. 273.
Val Richer, i. 320.
Valsamachi, Emily Shipley, Countess, ii. 145, 159, 160, 327.
Van de Weyer, Madame, ii. 232.
---- M. Sylvain, ii. 231-232.
Vane, Lady Katherine, afterwards Lady Barnard, vi. 79.
---- Margaret Gladstone, Lady, vi. 32.
---- Sir Henry, vi. 33, 354.
Vatche, the, in Buckinghamshire, i. 2, 3, 493; ii. 156.
Vaucher, Mademoiselle, ii. 379.
Vaudois, the, ii. 109.
Vaughan, Cardinal, vi. 483.
---- Catherine Maria Stanley, Mrs. Charles, i. 281, 311, 336; ii. 213, 261; iii. 170; iv. 360, 366; v. 225, 316, 327; vi. 102, 476, 505; death of, vi. 513-515.
---- Dr. Charles, afterwards Dean of Llandaff, i. 214, 218, 281, 336; ii. 213, 260, iii. 414; death of, vi. 476.
---- Herbert, of Llangoedmore, vi. 347.
Vauriol, Vicomte de, iii. 354.
Veii, ii. 391; iv. 95-96.
Venables, Rev. Edmund, afterwards Canon and Precentor of Lincoln, i. 240; vi. 361-362.
---- George Stovin, vi. 99.
Venice, vi. 168-170, 290-293.
Vernon, Augustus Henry, 6th Lord, iii. 140.
Verona, iii. 230, 337.
Verulam, Elizabeth Weyland, Countess of, iii. 139; v. 47.
---- James Walter Grimston, 2nd Earl of, v. 47, 49.
Vetturino travelling, ii. 46-49.
Vicenza, iii. 338; vi. 420.
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, ii. 376; iv. 96, 222.
Victoria, Queen of England, ii. 286-288; iv. 224, 366, 368; vi. 69-75, 82-83, 228, 264, 307, 464, 465.
Victorine, Madame, iii. 89-90.
Vienna, ii. 36.
Vigne, Père la, i. 338.
Villari, Professor Pasquale, the historian, v. 155.
Villiers, Hon. Francis, iv. 396.
Vine’s Gate, iii. 393.
Vitelleschi, Francesco Nobile, Marchese, politician, iv. 332-343.
Vivian, William Graham, vi. 101, 486.
Vivian, Amabel Beaumont, Lady Hussey, vi. 101.
Vivier, M., the actor, iv. 220-221, 225.
Vizille, vi. 48.
Voight, the artist, iv. 86.
Vyne, the, vi. 156.
W.
Waddington, Dean of Durham, ii. 265.
---- Mary Port, Mrs., v. 2, 5, 6.
---- William Henry, the statesman and ambassador, i. 319; ii. 109; v. 94-95.
Wagner, Rev. George, i. 79, 80.
---- Mrs., i. 79; ii. 427; iii. 397.
Wagstaff, Mrs., the clairvoyant, iv. 392.
Wake, Sir Baldwin, ii. 151.
Waldegrave, Frances Braham, Countess, iv. 328; v. 209.
---- Sarah Milward, Countess, iii. 397.
Wales, H.R.H. Albert Edward, Prince of, ii. 381; iv. 222, 223, 331, 379; v. 24, 212, 213; vi. 34.
---- H.R.H. Alexandra, Princess of, ii. 381; iv. 222, 223, 328, 331, 334, 396; v. 212.
---- H.R.H. Prince George of, v. 24.
Walker, Frederick J., i. 309, 332, 398; vi. 264.
---- Mrs. Frederick, v. 166; vi. 264.
----Frederick, the artist, iv. 357-358.
“Walks in Rome,” iii. 388, 397, 408; vi. 416.
Wallace, Sir Richard, v. 208.
Wallington, ii. 277, 347-352.
Wallop, Hon. John, v. 296.
Walpole, Catherine Shorter, Lady, vi. 104-105.
---- George, Lord, vi. 104.
---- Sir Robert, i. 2; vi. 104.
Walsh, Hon. Christopher, vi. 156.
Waltham Abbey, i. 311.
Walton, in Yorkshire, iv. 67.
“Wanderings in Spain,” iv. 83.
Wantage, ii. 222.
Wantage, Hon. Robert James Loyd Lindsay, Lord, vi. 433, 447.
---- Hon. Harriet Loyd, Lady, vi. 433, 447.
Warbleton Priory, vi. 470.
Warburton, Egerton, of Arley, iv. 461.
---- Matilda Grove, Mrs. Eliot, i. 510, 511-513; ii. 12.
---- Miss Sydney, the authoress, i. 510.
---- Miss Jane, iv. 216.
Ward, Hon. Elizabeth Blackwood, Mrs., v. 428.
---- Miss Geneviève, iv. 436; v. 276.
---- Herbert, vi. 240.
---- Mrs. Humphry, vi. 164.
Ward-Howe, Mrs. Julia, the poetess, v. 174.
Wardour Castle, v. 293.
Warkworth, ii. 278, 352.
Warkworth, Henry Algernon George, Lord, vi. 373.
Warner, Charles, the Trinidad philanthropist, vi. 434.
Warre, the Misses Florence and Margaret, vi. 510.
Warren, Miss Anna, ii. 144.
---- Penelope Shipley, Mrs., i. 165-166; ii. 143-144; iii. 125.
Warsaw, v. 401.
Warwick, George Guy Greville, 3rd Earl of, iv. 253-254, 261.
---- Lady Anne Charteris, Countess of, iv. 261, 267; vi. 33.
Warwick Castle, vi. 33.
Waterford, Christina Leslie, Marchioness of, vi 21.
---- John, Marquis of, ii. 280.
---- Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquis of, ii. 362; iv. 291-292; v. 358.
---- Hon. Louisa Stuart, Marchioness of, ii. 280-282, 360-363; iii. 10-13, 23-31, 323-327; iv. 51, 60-61, 133-143, 208-217, 251-265, 340-343, 376, 404-409; v. 15, 213-214, 290-291; vi. 108-110, 158-161, 241-251, 326, 327, 333.
Watson, Sir Thomas, physician (1792-1882), v. 184.
---- Mr. and Mrs., of Rockingham, vi. 256.
---- the author, vi. 434.
Watts, G. F., R.A., vi. 326-330.
---- Theodore, the author, v. 289-290.
Way, Albert, i. 503; ii. 133.
---- Rev. John, vi. 183.
Wayland Smith’s cave, ii. 230.
Webster, Charlotte Adamson, Lady, iii. 177; iv. 301.
Weeping Cross, ii. 328.
Weimar, Pauline of Saxe-Weimar Eisenach, Grand Duchess of, v. 87.
Welbeck Abbey, v. 366; vi. 475.
Weld, Thomas, Cardinal, vi. 22-23.
Weling, Fräulein von, the authoress, v. 77, 292.
Wellesley, Rev. Dr. Henry, Principal of New Inn Hall and Rector of Hurstmonceaux, i. 16; ii. 213, 244, 294-297.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, i. 393; iv. 345; v. 276; vi. 190-191, 373.
---- Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of, iv. 81, 344; v. 11-12, 29, 276.
Wells, i. 308; v. 291; vi. 320.
Wells, Lady Louisa, ii. 356; iii. 140.
Wemyss, Francis, 8th Earl of, iii. 44.
---- Lady Louisa Bingham, Countess of, ii. 356; iv. 267.
Wenlock Abbey, vi. 382.
Wenlock, Hon. Caroline Neville, Lady, ii. 389; iii. 154.
Wensleydale, Cecilia Barlow, Lady, iv. 124, 414; v. 62.
Wentworth, Lady Harriet, v. 298.
Wentworth Castle, v. 297.
---- Wodehouse, iv. 281-283.
Wesselow, Mr. and Mrs. Simpkinson de, iv. 163-165; vi. 264.
Westenberg, M. and Mme. de, v. 152, 160; vi. 509.
Westminster, Lady Constance Gower, Duchess of, v. 229.
---- Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Marchioness of, v. 366.
Westmoreland, Anne Child, Countess of, iv. 468.
West Woodhay, i. 84, 95.
West Wycombe, vi. 299.
Weyland, Lady Catherine, iv. 69; v. 47.
Weymouth, ii. 229.
Wharncliffe, Lady Susan Lascelles, Countess of, iv. 327.
Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, i. 228, 283.
Whewell, Dr. William, Master of Trinity, i. 164; iii. 158; vi. 526.
Whistler, James, the artist, iv. 376; v. 190.
Whitburn, ii. 206-213; iv. 272; v. 423.
White, Lady Maude, vi. 436.
Whiteway, vi. 181.
Whitford, Mrs. Mary, vi. 174.
Wickham, Agnes Gladstone, Mrs., vi. 362.
---- William of Binstead-Wyck, afterwards M.P., ii. 217; iv. 131.
Wied, Marie of Nassau, Dowager Princess of, v. 78-84.
Wigan, Mrs., iv. 219.
Wilberforce, Rev. Canon Basil, vi. 520.
---- Samuel, Bishop of Oxford, afterwards of Winchester, i. 470; iii. 153; iv. 125; v. 218-219.
Wilbraham, Charles, v. 17.
Wilcot House, i. 278.
Wilde, Oscar, the play-writer, v. 386.
Wilkinson, Rev. George Howard, iv. 342.
William IV., King of England, i. 69, 294.
Williams, Captain, iii. 28, 32.
---- Sir Fenwick, iv. 35.
---- Sir John and Lady Sarah, i. 503.
Williamson, Hon. Anne Liddell, Lady, ii. 207, 208, 211, 212, 400, 403.
---- Captain Charles, ii. 210, 212; iv. 248.
---- Lady Elizabeth, iv. 272, 365, 456; v. 423.
---- Sir Hedworth, iv. 272, 365, 459
---- Victor A., ii. 137, 210, 214, 403; iv. 232; v. 208.
Willmer, Bishop of Louisiana, vi. 354-356.
Willoughby, Sir Hugh, the Arctic voyager, vi. 425.
Wilson, Miss Fanny Fleetwood, vi. 280, 483.
---- Georgiana Sumner, Mrs., i. 407.
---- Sir Thomas Maryon, v. 280.
Wimbledon Camp, iv. 219.
Wimpole, iv. 252.
Winchelsea, Fanny Rice, Countess, iv. 411.
Winchester, John Paulet, 14th Marquis of, iv. 482.
Windham, Rt. Hon. William, the statesman, v. 451.
Windsor, Alberta Victoria Paget, Lady, vi. 351, 448.
---- Robert George Clive, Lord, v. 359; vi. 351, 448.
Wingfield, Miss Katherine, vi. 313.
---- Hon. Cecilia FitzPatrick, Hon. Mrs. Lewis, iv. 173, 227, 228, 231; v. 209.
Winkworth, Mrs. Stephen, v. 289.
Winslow, Dr., iii. 313, 359, 366, 370.
Winton Castle, ii. 354; iv. 267, 447.
Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick, Cardinal, ii. 486; vi. 162.
Wishaw House, ii. 358.
Woburn Abbey, v. 60-61; vi. 77.
Wodehouse, Miss Emily, i. 120.
---- Canon and Lady Jane, i. 120.
Wolff, Rev. Joseph, v. 278.
Wollaton Hall, vi. 424.
Wolseley, Sir Garnet, afterwards Viscount, iv. 305, 465.
---- Louisa Erskine, Viscountess, iv. 305, 465.
Wombwell, Lady Julia, v. 423.
Wood, Lady Agnes, iv. 240-243, 249, 293, 385.
---- Alderman, iii. 15.
---- Rt. Hon. Sir Charles, ii. 283; iv. 286.
---- Hon. Charles Lindley, ii. 137-138, 214, 251-253, 283, 325; iii. 320; iv. 239-243, 249, 290-293, 363, 385; v. 419-421.
---- Hon. Frederick, iv. 283.
---- Misses Isabel and Lorraine, vi. 12.
---- Lady Mary, ii. 251.
---- Mrs. Shakespeare, iii. 191, 204.
Woodbastwick Hall, vi. 225, 262.
Woodlands, vi. 99.
Woodward, Fanny Finucane, Mrs., iii. 209, 211, 213, 318, 364, 365, 374, 378.
Woolbeding, vi. 297.
Wordsworth, William, the poet, i. 177, 499.
Worsley Sir William, Bart., vi. 256.
Worth Park, vi. 27, 227.
Worting House, near Basingstoke, i. 13; ii. 143, 144.
Wortley, Hon. Mrs. James Stuart, iv. 82.
Wraxhall Manor, South, i. 272; vi. 485.
Wright, Miss Sophia of Mapperley, ii. 392; iii. 140, 183, 318; iv. 24, 25, 28, 48, 95, 99, 106, 304; v. 17, 130-131, 147.
Wynford, Caroline Baillie, Lady, iv. 398; v. 45, 195.
Wynne, Sir Watkin, v. 65, 202.
Wythenshawe, iv. 463.
Y.
Yates, Edmund Hodgson, the novelist, v. 16.
Yeatman, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, iii. 414.
Yetholm, iii. 31.
York, H.R.H. George, Duke of, vi. 353, 399.
---- William Maclagan, Archbishop of, vi. 256-257, 294, 356, 443.
---- William Markham, Archbishop of, vi. 360.
---- Thomas Musgrave, Archbishop of, vi. 262.
---- William Thompson, Archbishop of, iv. 473.
---- Edward Vernon Harcourt, Archbishop of, vi. 360.
---- H. R. H. Victoria Mary, Duchess of, vi. 353, 516.
Yorke, Hon. Alexander, iv. 250, 251; v. 222.
----Frances Graham, Mrs. Dallas, vi. 475.
---- Hon. Eliot, iv. 288-290, 410.
Yorke, Annie de Rothschild, Hon. Mrs. Eliot, iv. 410.
Z.
Zanzibar, the Sultan of, iv. 328.
Zermatt, i. 460.
Zouche, Robert Curzon, Lord de la, vi. 296.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] J. Greenleaf Whittier, “Letters.”
[2] I had to pay a duty of 10 per cent, even on all my own money and savings, as it had been unfortunately invested in her name.
[3] Archibald, eldest son of John Archibald Colquhoun of Killermont, N.B., and Chartwell, near Westerham, in Kent.
[4] Archie Colquhoun died at Nice in the following spring.
[5] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[6] These rooms have been entirely altered since Lady Waterford’s death.
[7] Mary Amelia, widow of the first Marquis.
[8] Daughter of the 5th Earl of Balcarres.
[9] James Edward, 2nd Earl.
[10] Afterwards Dean of Wells.
[11] The picture was exhibited in the spring of 1845, and was sent straight to Hurstmonceaux from the Exhibition.
[12] Our cousins Sir Alexander and Lady Taylor. See vol. iii.
[13] The Rev. Henry Liddell, brother of my great-uncle Ravensworth, and whose wife, Charlotte Lyon, was niece of my great-grandmother, Lady Anne Simpson.
[14] Don Juan died in 1880, leaving his last great work, the restoration of Leon Cathedral, unfinished.
[15] This was my first meeting with Everard Primrose, afterwards for many years one of my most intimate friends. He had a cold manner, which was repellant to those who did not know him well, and in conversation he was tantalising, for nothing came out of him at all comparable to what one knew was within. But no young man’s life was more noble, stainless, and full of highest hopes and purposes. He died--to my lasting sorrow--of fever during the African campaign of 1885. His mother printed a memoir afterwards, which was a beautiful and simple portrait of his life--a very model of biographical truth.
[16] It has since been entirely destroyed.
[17] From “Paris.”
[18] W. S. Landor.
[19] Dr. Chalmers.
[20] Wordsworth.
[21] For these old friends of my mother, _vide_ vols. i. and iii.
[22] This dear old lady (widow of a first cousin of my father’s) lived in uncomplaining poverty till 1891, and was a great pleasure to me. I was glad to be able to contribute to the support of her small establishment at Norbiton.
[23] Since this was written the pictures have all been dispersed.
[24] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[25] Mrs. T. Erskine’s novel.
[26] George Macdonald.
[27] Lady Margaret Beaumont, whom I afterwards knew very intimately, and learnt to regard with ever-increasing esteem and affection, died, to my great sorrow, March 31, 1888.
[28] Afterwards Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock. He died May 1891.
[29] The Mote has since been sold and its contents dispersed.
[30] Mr. Hailstone of Walton Hall died 1890, his wife some years earlier. He bequeathed his topographical collections to the Chapter at York, where they are preserved as the “Hailstone Yorkshire Library.”
[31] This church, the most interesting memorial of the Brontë life at Haworth, was wantonly destroyed in 1880-81.
[32] Lady Salisbury’s description.
[33] Told me by Lord Houghton.
[34] _Note added 1890._--Authorities now decide that this picture does not represent Mary at all, and it is certainly not, as formerly stated, by Zucchero, for Zucchero, who was never in England till the Queen was in captivity, never painted her.
[35] Afterwards Lady Sherbrooke.
[36] This was so for a long time. Then in about ten years several more editions were called for in rapid succession. One can never anticipate how it will be with books.
[37] 1890.--This was so for many years: then the sale of “Days near Rome” suddenly and unaccountably stopped.
[38] From “Days near Rome”
[39] Miss Margaret Foley died Dec. 1877.
[40] Afterwards Lady Compton.
[41] From “Days near Rome.”
[42] From “Days near Rome.”
[43] Perhaps the interest of these details is of the past, but I insert them because the conduct of the Sardinian Government is being rapidly forgotten, and I was at great pains in obtaining accurate statistics and verifying the facts mentioned.
[44] From “Days near Rome.”
[45] Afterwards Duchess of Marino.
[46] Mother of the Duchess S. Arpino.
[47] Shortly before this my publishers had given me a magnificently bound copy of “Walks in Rome,” with the desire that I would present it to Princess Margherita. I demurred to doing this, because, owing to the strictures which the book contains on the “Sardinian Government,” I thought it might be considered little less than an impertinence; but I told the Duchess S. Arpino, who was in waiting at the time, and she repeated it. The amiable Princess said, “I am sorry Mr. Hare does not appreciate us, but I should like my present all the same,” and the book was sent to her.
[48] From “Days near Rome.”
[49] From “Days near Rome.”
[50] This quaint journey is described in the introductory chapter of “Days near Rome.”
[51] From “Days near Rome.”
[52] From “Days near Rome.”
[53] From “Days near Rome.”
[54] From “Days near Rome.”
[55] From “Days near Rome.”
[56] From “Days near Rome.”
[57] From “Days near Rome.”
[58] Miss Kate Malcolm, the last of her family, died, universally beloved, in May 1891.
[59] From “Northern Italy.”
[60] From “Northern Italy.”
[61] Samuel Wilberforce.
[62] Rev. Hugh Pearson, Rector of Sonning.
[63] The house of William Wickham, who married my cousin Sophia Lefevre.
[64] In 1884 this fine old property of the Needhams was sold to A. P. Heywood Lonsdale, Esq. (now Heywood), who is also owner of the neighbouring estate of Cloverly.
[65] This old friend of my childhood died Dec. 1890, in her 99th year.
[66]
“Andrew, she has a face looks like a story, The story of the heavens looks very like her.” BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, _The Elder Brother_.
[67] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[67] Afterwards Lady Harcourt.
[69] This is much like the epitaph which Ruskin has placed on the grave of his father.
[70] A rich farmer, the landlord of our Lime farm at Hurstmonceaux.
[71] Mrs. Harford of Blaise Castle, third daughter of Baron de Bunsen.
[72] From “Northern Italy.”
[73] From “Northern Italy.”
[74] From “Northern Italy.”
[75] Beatrice, afterwards the first wife of Charles Stuart Wortley.
[76] From “Days near Rome.”
[77] From “Days near Rome.”
[78] From “Days near Rome.”
[79] From “Days near Rome.”
[80] From “Days near Rome.”
[81] From “Days near Rome.”
[82] From “Days near Rome.”
[83] From “Days near Rome.”
[84] From “Days near Rome.”
[85] From “Days near Rome.”
[86] Daughter of Lord Howard de Walden, afterwards Duchess of Sermoneta.
[87] From “Days near Rome.”
[88] This excellent old Abbot was afterwards cruelly murdered at Rome.
[89] From “Days near Rome.”
[90] From “Days near Rome.”
[91] From “Florence.”
[92] _All_ the women have fainted.
[93] Sermon on Ezekiel.
[94] From “Northern Italy.”
[95] From “North-Eastern France.”
[96] Afterwards known as “Sunday Hill.”
[97] Fanny Blackett, Vicomtesse du Quaire, who died, universally beloved and regretted, in the spring of 1895.
[98] Feb. 8, 1814.
[99] Hon. E. Primrose, second son of the Duchess of Cleveland by her first marriage with Lord Dalmeny.
[100] Cambry.
[101] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[102] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[103] Eighth daughter of the 7th Earl of Wemyss. She died, deeply mourned and beloved, in 1891.
[104] Author of “Rab and his Friends.”
[105] Daughter of the 8th Earl of Cavan, afterwards Baroness von Essen.
[106] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[107] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[108] John, second Duke of Argyll, immortalised by Pope.
[109] Author of “Music and Morals,” &c.
[110] From “Walks in London.”
[111] From “Walks in London.”
[112] From “Days near Paris.”
[113] This was my first sight of the contentious and arbitrary essayist Abraham Hayward, whom I often saw afterwards. He was always interesting to meet, if only on account of his perverse acerbity. Constantly invited by a world which feared him, he was always determined to be listened to, and generally said something worth hearing.
[114] From “Walks in London.”
[115] From “Walks in London.”
[116] Lady Victoria Liddell married Captain Edward Fisher, now Rowe.
[117] John FitzPatrick, Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory.
[118] From “Walks in London.”
[119] Emily, wife of the 5th Earl Stanhope, died Dec. 31, 1873.
[120] Evelyn Henrietta, daughter of R. Pennefather, Esq., afterwards 6th Countess Stanhope.
[121] Daughter of Amos Meredith, Esq. She married, secondly, a son of the 4th Duke of Argyll.
[122] Lady Harriet Pelham, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Chichester, wife of the 6th Earl of Darnley.
[123] Tasso.
[124] My real mother’s youngest sister Jane (see vol. i.). She married Edward, only son of the famous Lord Edward FitzGerald and of the beautiful Pamela. She lived till November 1891.
[125] The family circle was broken up by the death of Mr. Carew in 1888, a few months after that of his eldest daughter.
[126] I learnt to value Dean Church very much afterwards. The story of his beautiful and noble life is told in a wonderfully interesting “Memoir.”
[127] William, afterwards 4th Earl of St. Germans, died Oct. 7, 1877.
[128] Edward Granville, 3rd Earl of St. Germans, died 1877.
[129] George, second son of the 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, married Fanny Lucy, eldest daughter of Sir John Shelley.
[130] Sophia, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire.
[131] Hugh, 3rd Earl Fortescue.
[132] The Queen of the Gipsies died in July 1883, at the age of eighty-six.
[133] Her mother, Lady Stuart de Rothesay, was daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hardwicke.
[134] Charles, 3rd Earl of Somers.
[135] George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick, died Dec. 2, 1893.
[136] I afterwards heard the same story, almost in the same words, from Lord Warwick himself.
[137] from “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[138] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[139] Bk. vi. 73, 74.
[140] Anne, wife of the 4th Earl of Warwick, daughter of Francis, 8th Earl of Wemyss and March.
[141] My mother’s first cousin, Georgiana Liddell, had married Lord Bloomfield, formerly ambassador at Berlin and Vienna.
[142] From “The Story of Two Noble Lives.”
[143] I have heard Professor Owen tell this story himself.
[144] Louisa, fourth daughter of 2nd Earl of Lucan.
[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:--
“Here, within the chapel’s shade, Reverent hands have gently laid, From the suffering of her life, From its storminess and strife, All that rests of one who shone For a time on England’s throne, Ever gentle, ever kind, Seeking human souls to bind In a Christian’s fetters fast, Heavenward leading at the last: And their watch two angels keep Over Katherine’s gentle sleep.
Oh! amid this world of ours, With its sunshine and its flowers, Glad with light and blest with love, Let us still so live above All earth’s jealousies and snares, All its fretfulness and cares, Ever faithful, ever true, With the noblest end in view, Seeking human souls to raise By the simplest, purest ways; Then their ward will angels keep When we too are hush’d to sleep.”
[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.
[281] Afterwards “Carmen Sylva,” the poet-queen of Roumania.
[282] Widow of my cousin Marcus, lost in the _Eurydice_.
[283] The epitaph of Prince Otto, by his mother, is--
“Made perfect through Suffering and patient in Hope, Of a fearless Spirit and strong in Faith, His mind turned towards heavenly things, He searched for truth and a knowledge of God. What he humbly sought in Life, He, being set free, has now found in Light.”
[284] _Née_ Isabel Waddington, sister of the ambassador from France to England.
[285] Younger son of my real mother’s youngest brother Wentworth.
[286] My real mother’s younger brother, Wentworth Paul, had married Countess Marie Marcia von Benningsen, lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Hanover.
[287] Afterwards ambassador in England.
[288] From “Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia.”
[289] Longfellow.
[290] Carlyle.
[291] Their grandmother was a Mademoiselle Clary, sister of Queen Desirée of Sweden.
[292] From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.
[293] From “Days near Rome,” vol. ii.
[294] From “Central Italy.”
[295] From “Central Italy.”
[296] See vol. iii.
[297] Wife of a north-country baronet.
[298] Mary Howitt, aged 89, fulfilled her heart’s desire by also dying at Rome, Jan. 30, 1888, and, though a Catholic, was permitted to rest by her husband’s side in the Protestant cemetery. She never recovered the fatigue of a visit to the Pope. It was all made as easy as possible for her, on account of her great age, and the Duke of Norfolk was allowed to bring her in separately. “Adieu! we shall meet again in heaven,” said Leo XIII., on taking leave of her: a fortnight after she was dead.
[299] I have not been able to do this, as there is a prohibition in England against wearing foreign orders, dating from Elizabeth, who said, “My dogs shall wear nothing but my own collars.”
[300] I little thought at the time that Frank Crawford would turn out a distinguished and popular novelist: it was at Bombay that he met the original of “Mr. Isaacs.”
[301] The Misses Monk, daughters of the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol.
[302] Miss Clarke.
[303] From “South-Eastern France.”
[304] Of very humble origin himself, to court great personages had been the ruling passion of his life, and it had been a subject of extravagant pride to him that he had occasionally entertained this good-natured Princess at dinner at Pau.
[305] From “Walks in London.”
[306] I often saw Mademoiselle Bernhardt act afterwards, and was far less impressed by her, feeling the truth of the expression “Une tragédienne du Boulevard.”
[307] With whom afterwards I became great friends.
[308] The story of Count Piper is curious and highly honourable to him. He discovered that the late King Carl XV. was going to make a most unworthy and disgraceful marriage, and he wrote to him most strongly upon the subject. The king never forgave him, and made it impossible for him to stay in Sweden, but the cause of his disgrace was unknown, till the present king, Oscar, found the letter among his brother’s papers after his death. Count Piper was at once recalled, and given first-rate diplomatic posts.
[309] From “Walks in London.”
[310] From “Walks in London.”
[311] Daughter of John Braham, the singer. She married (1) John James Waldegrave, Esq.; (2) George-Edward, 7th Earl Waldegrave; (3) George Granville Harcourt, Esq., of Nuneham; (4) Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford. When she was a child a gipsy foretold that she would marry first to please her parents, secondly for rank, thirdly for wealth, and fourthly to please herself.
[312] Eldest son of the Earl of Tankerville. See vol. iii.
[313] Lady Waterford, Lady Jane Ellice, and Lady Marian Alford.
[314] See vol. i.
[315] Joaquin Miller.
[316] See vol. i.
[317] Sir John Shaw Lefevre died at Margate.
[318] My cousin, Lady Elizabeth Adeane, _née_ Yorke, had married Michael Biddulph, Esq., of Ledbury.
[319] See vol. iii.
[320] Constance-Gertrude, youngest daughter of the 2nd Duke of Sutherland.
[321] Maria, youngest daughter of Hon. Charles Tollemache, second wife (1833) of Charles Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury.
[322] Ada Maria Katherine, daughter of Hon. Frederick Tollemache, married (1868) Charles Hanbury Tracy, Baron Sudeley.
[323] Ham House has been greatly, perhaps too much restored since this, by the 8th Earl of Dysart.
[324] Feb. 17, 1671-2.
[325] Afterwards Dean of Winchester.
[326] Two thousand pounds and its interests for many years have (1900) never been repaid.
[327] Archbishop Trench.
[328] From “Southern Italy.”
[329] From “Southern Italy.”
[330] From “Southern Italy.”
[331] From “Southern Italy.”
[332] From “Southern Italy.”
[333] From “Southern Italy.”
[334] From “Southern Italy.”
[335] From “Southern Italy.”
[336] From “Southern Italy.”
[337] From “Southern Italy.”
[338] This story was told to me by Susan, Lady Sherborne, who heard it from Lord Clanwilliam.
[339] From “Southern Italy.”
[340] From “Southern Italy.”
[341] From “Southern Italy.”
[342] From “Southern Italy.”
[343] Eleanor Paul, who had lived with my sister, and who afterwards lived with her brother, George Paul.
[344] Frank Miles died July 1891.
[345] Marquis de Sade.
[346] Afterwards Lady Rumbold.
[347] Rev. Joseph Wolff, missionary to Palestine, died 1862.
[348] Doña Emilia de Guyangos. See vol. iv.
[349] Mrs. Thellusson died January 23, 1881, leaving a most loving memory behind. Swinburne wrote a pretty poem on her death.
[350] Afterwards married to Robert-George, Lord Windsor.
[351] See vol. ii.
[352] Dr. Grey died, aged 77, January 1888.
[353] Isabella Henrietta Poyntz, 8th Countess of Cork.
[354]
“No wonder, Mary, that thy story Touches all hearts--for there we see The soul’s corruption, and its glory, Its death and life combin’d in thee.
* * * * *
No wonder, Mary, that thy face, In all its touching light of tears, Should meet us in each holy place, When man before his God appears, Hopeless--were he not taught to see All hope in Him who pardoned thee.”
[355] Yet, M. Vivier told Madame du Quaire that, when he first went to see Mrs. Grote, he found her sitting high aloft in a tree, dressed in a coachman’s brown greatcoat with capes, playing on the violoncello.
[356] Mr. Grote was ever imperturbably placid. When Jenny Lind was asked what she thought of Mr. Grote, she said he was “like a fine old bust in a corner which one longed to dust.” Mrs. Grote dusted him.
[357] This was my last sight of Lady Ruthven, who died April 5, 1885, aged 96.
[358] “Pensées Philosophiques,” 1747.
[359] Since republished in “Biographical Sketches.”
[360] The Stanleys’ dear old nurse.
[361] From “Biographical Sketches.”
[362] Lord Romilly perished in his burning house in Egerton Gardens, London, in May 1891, having never recovered the death of his most sweet wife several years before.
[363] Hon. W. Owen Stanley, brother of the 2nd Lord Stanley of Alderley, and of my aunt Mrs. Marcus Hare.
[364] Mary Louisa, daughter of Henry, 5th Duke of Grafton.
[365] Edward Gordon Douglas Pennant, Baron Penrhyn, who had succeeded to Penrhyn Castle in right of his first wife, Miss Dawkins Pennant.
[366] Her grandmother, Lady Ravensworth, was my grandmother’s only sister.
[367] From “Southern Italy.”
[368] From “Southern Italy.”
[369] From “Southern Italy.”
[370] Olympia, Countess von Usedom, eldest daughter of Sir John Malcolm. See vols. i. and iii.
[371] This Patriarch died of the influenza in 1892.
[372] From “Venice.”
[373] Dr. Walter Smith on Robertson of Irvine.
[374] Philip-Henry, 4th Earl Stanhope, died 1855.
[375] Dr. Buckland afterwards told Lady Lyndhurst that there was one thing even worse than a mole, and that was a blue-bottle fly.
[376] From “Walks in London.”
[377] From “Holland.”
[378] From “Holland.”
[379] The results of this tour appeared in the first part of my little volume, “Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia.”
[380] Second daughter of the 1st Duke of Sutherland, born 1797; she wrote to me several times after this, and showed me great kindness, but we never met again. She died November 11, 1891.
[381] Lowell.
[382] Gray’s “Enigmas of Life.”
[383] John Gidman, her most unworthy husband, the cloud and scourge and sorrow of her life. He had (fortunately for me) kept away during her illness, and did not wish to have anything to do with her funeral, or even to attend it. Immediately after, he removed all her possessions to Cheshire, and soon married again, dying six years after.
[384] Madame de Staël.
[385] Princess Elizabeth of Wied; translated by Sir Edwin Arnold.
[386] Thomasine Jocelyn, widow of the 4th Earl of Donoughmore.
[387] From “Studies in Russia.”
[388] From “Studies in Russia.”
[389] From “Studies in Russia.”
[390] From “Studies in Russia.”
[391] From “Studies in Russia.”
[392] From “Studies in Russia.”
[393] From “Studies in Russia.”
[394] I published some articles on Mrs. Duncan Stewart and her remarkable life in _Good Words_ for 1892. They have been republished in “Biographical Sketches.”
[395] From “North-Eastern France.”
[396] From “North-Eastern France.”
[397] From “North-Eastern France.”
[398] The third boy, Henry Wood, died in London, June 6, 1886. The second son, Francis, died at Eton, March 17, 1889. The beloved eldest son, Charlie, died at Hickledon, September 1890.
[399] My second-cousin, Lady Elizabeth Williamson, daughter of the 1st Earl of Ravensworth.
[400] Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, widow of Philip, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke[.] Her eldest daughter, Lady Mexborough, was the mother of Lady Sarah Savile, who married Hon. Sir James Lindsay.
[401] Frances-Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Vane Tempest, who (1819) became the second wife of the 3rd Marquis of Londonderry.
[402] From “Walks in London.”
[403] From “South-Western France.”
[404] From “South-Western France.”
[405] From “South-Western France.”
[406] From “South-Western France.”
[407] From “South-Western France.”
[408] From “South-Western France.”
[409] From “South-Western France.”
[410] William Schomberg, 8th Marquis of Lothian, died 1870, aged 38.
[411] From “Sussex.”
[412] Very soon after I was at Ludlow, gentle Lady Mary Clive lost all her powers by a paralytic seizure, and she died in the summer of 1889
[413] William Reginald Courtenay, 12th Earl of Devon.
[414] Clough.
[415] W. H. Smith, 1844.
[416] Dante, _Purg._ III.
[417] “Le Lys dans la Vallée.”
[418] Ben Jonson.
[419] Monckton Milnes.
[420] From “Sussex.”
[421] This was my last visit to the kind and excellent Lotteringo della Stufa, who died at Castagnolo, Feb. 26, 1889, after a long and painful illness.
[422] From “Days near Rome.”
[423] From “Days near Rome.”
[424] From “Days near Rome.”
[425] From “Central Italy.”
[426] From “Central Italy.”
[427] From “South-Eastern France.”
[428] From “North-Eastern France.”
[429] Lady Gage died a few months after, and left Hengrave to Lord Kenmare, who sold it.
[430] Ockwells was afterwards bought by my friend Stephen Leech, who restored it thoroughly and then sold it again.
[431] Frances Mary, daughter of Christopher Blackett of Wylam, widow of the Vicomte du Quaire.
[432] Emma, sister of Sir Francis Seymour.
[433] Margaret, daughter of T. Steuart Gladstone, Esq., of Capenoch.
[434] Anne, daughter of the Earl of Wemyss and March, wife of the 4th Earl of Warwick.
[435] Edward Heneage Dering was the author of several books. His last, a novel--“The Ban of Maplethorpe”--was only completed the day before his sudden death in November 1892. His grandmother, Lady Maria Harrington Price, and my grandmother. Lady Paul, were first cousins.
[436] From “South-Eastern France.”
[437] From “South-Eastern France.”
[438] From “South-Eastern France.”
[439] From “South-Eastern France.”
[440] From “South-Eastern France.”
[441] From “South-Eastern France.”
[442] From “South-Eastern France.”
[443] From “South-Eastern France.”
[444] From “South-Eastern France.”
[445] From “South-Eastern France.”
[446] From “South-Eastern France.”
[447] From “South-Eastern France.”
[448] From “Sussex.”
[449] He had been sub-editor of the _Times_.
[450] From “Walks in London.”
[451] Prince Abu’n Nasr Mir Hissanum, Sultanah of Persia; Devawongse Varspraker of Siam; and Komatsu of Japan.
[452] Princess “Liliuokalani.” Queen Liliuokalani was deposed January 1893, after a reign of only two years.
[453] Bertram, 4th Earl of Ashburnham.
[454] Fourth daughter of the 3rd Marquis of Exeter, afterwards Lady Barnard.
[455] Lady Alma Graham, youngest daughter of the 4th Duke of Montrose.
[456] I never saw Mrs. Procter again; she died March 5, 1888. She liked to see people to the last. Every Sunday and Tuesday she admitted all who came to her as long as she could; then she saw a portion: up to the last few weeks she saw one or two. As Landor says, “She warmed both hands before the fire of life, and when it sank she was ready to depart.”
One day a young man remonstrated with Mrs. Procter for not going to see an exhibition of Sir Joshuas which was open at that time. “I have seen them all,” she said. “Why, Mrs. Procter, there has never been such an exhibition before.”--“I beg your pardon; there has been.”--“Why, when?”--“In 1808, and--_where were you then_?”
Mrs. Procter used to tell how she had been at the jubilee of George III., and would add that if she could see the jubilee of Queen Victoria she would say her “Nunc Dimittis;” and she did see it, and the Queen expressed a wish that Mrs. Procter, who was invited to her garden-party, should be especially presented to her.
Mrs. Procter--Anne Benson Procter--was born Sept. 11, 1799, being the daughter of Mr. Skepper, a small Yorkshire squire. Her mother, a Benson, who was aunt of the Archbishop of Canterbury of that name, married, as her second husband, Basil Montagu, Q.C. In 1823, Miss Skepper married Bryan Waller Procter, known as Barry Cornwall, described by Patmore as a “simple, sincere, shy, and delicate soul,” well known to his contemporaries by his songs set to music by popular composers. He died in 1874.
[457] _Née_ Janet Duff Gordon.
[458] Second daughter of the 1st Earl of Kilmorey, aged 95.
[459] Henry Cowper, than whom no one was a more universal favourite, or more deservedly so, died a few months after this.
[460] Afterwards Lady Swansea.
[461] Third son of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen, married Ellen, 2nd daughter of the 19th Earl of Morton.
[462] Lady Gertrude Talbot, daughter of the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury.
[463] Esquire being written as well as Reverend, is supposed to have been intended to indicate the son of a baronet.
[464] In 1890 Mr. Pigott died, and the new Rector destroyed the character of Bemerton by adding largely to the rectory in red brick.
[465] The Earl of Caledon’s place in Hertfordshire.
[466] The 16th Earl, father of the Princesses Doria and Borghese.
[467] Browning.
[468] From “North-Western France.”
[469] Sir John Saville’s.
[470] Harry George Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland, who died August 21, 1891.
[471] Afterwards Duchess of Portland.
[472] Louisa, daughter of Henry Drummond, Esq., died 1890.
[473] Algernon-George, 6th Duke of Northumberland.
[474] How well I remember, when somebody remonstrated with Lady Marian for “burning the candle at both ends,” the quickness with which she answered--“Why, I thought that was the very way to make two ends meet.”
[475] Her father, Benjamin Bathurst (third son of Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich), travelling as envoy from the British Government to the Emperor Francis, was about to enter his carriage at the door of the Swan Inn at Perleberg, between Berlin and Hamburg, when he disappeared and was _never heard of again_. Her brother was killed by a fall from his horse in a race at Rome. Her sister, Emmeline, who married (1830) Lord Castle Stuart, and afterwards (1867) Signor Pistocchi, I have often seen at Rome.
[476] From “South-Eastern France.”
[477] From “South-Western France.”
[478] From “South-Eastern France.”
[479] From “South-Western France.”
[480] Mr. Challoner Chute, of the Vyne, died, deeply regretted, May 30, 1892.
[481] The picture belongs to Mr. Morison.
[482] From “South-Eastern France.”
[483] From “Venice.”
[484] A few months after this happy visit to my dear friend Sir Howard Elphinstone came the terrible news of his sudden death at sea.
[485] Georgiana, third daughter of Charles, 4th Duke of Richmond.
[486] The four seraphim are recognised by the Moslems as Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, and Israel. Before the birth of the Prophet they were supposed to speak, and to give warning of coming catastrophes. Thus they have been permitted to survive the other ancient mosaics of St. Sophia.
[487] Marion Crawford’s novel.
[488] Joseph Maier, the eminent wood-sculptor.
[489] “Die Früchte der Passionbetrachtung.”
[490] “I know no guilt like that of incontinent speech. How long Christ was silent before He spoke, and how little He then said.”--_Carlyle, in Reid’s Life of Lord Houghton._
[491] A passage in Richard Kurd’s Sermons (vol. ii.), which I had read long ago, would come back to me during this terrible hour. “In this awfully stupendous manner, at which Reason stands aghast, and Faith herself is half-confounded, was the grace of God to man at length manifested.”
[492] John Inglesant.
[493] Paul Verlaine.
[494] The birth of John, Henry, and Thomas Palmer is perhaps the only well-authenticated instance of a fortnight intervening between the eldest and the youngest child produced at a birth. It is described by Fuller. Their mother was Alice, daughter of John Clement. Sir Henry lost his life in the defence of Guisnes, of which he was governor. Sir Thomas was beheaded for the part which he took for Lady Jane Grey.
[495] Née Magniac.
[496] Austin Dobson, “Angiola in Heaven.”
[497] From “Biographical Sketches.”
[498] From “Northern Italy.”
[499] Onions and lettuces. The lower classes in Rome call all the smaller vegetables fruit.
[500] “Yes, lady; it is enough for me to think of that shoemaker who made me pay seven francs instead of five, and I cry directly.”
[501] A mineral fountain near Rome.
[502] William Wetmore Story died--deeply loved by children, friends, indeed by all who came within his genial and invigorating influence--at Vallombrosa, Oct. 7, 1895, aged 77. His excellent wife had passed away before him.
[503] From “Days near Rome.”
[504] Planted by S. Dominic, and supposed to flourish or fail with the fortunes of the Dominican Order.
[505] From “Days near Rome.”
[506] From “Venice.”
[507] Lady Emily Pierrepont, daughter of Earl Manvers, widow of Frederick Lygon, 6th Earl Beauchamp.
[508] Horatio William Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford.
[509] I have since heard that this was Louise de Rohan Chabot, whom his father forbade Lord Orford to marry, because she was a Roman Catholic. She was the love of his life, which was wrecked, and he became a Roman Catholic himself--such is Nemesis!
[510] This was the man who one day went up to the great, the beloved Bishop Brooks, the most popular man in America since Washington, and said, “And do you really believe all that you say?” “I wanted to knock him down, the little moth-eaten angel,” said the Bishop in recounting it afterwards.
[511] At Lincoln he had “a fair tomb of marble,” with the punning legend, “Longa terra mansura ejus, Dominus dedit.” The reference is to the Vulgate--Job xi. 9. At Eton he had an epitaph on brass.
[512] I never saw the beloved Lord Arthur Hervey again: he died June 1894.
[513] From “Sussex.”
[514] From “Sussex.”
[515] Lord John George Beresford.
[516] G. V. Watts, R.A.
[517] Henry Fuseli or Fuessli, an Anglo-Swiss.
[518] The famous J. M. W. Turner.
[519] The Marquises of Sligo are Earls of Altamont.
[520] From “The Gurneys of Earlham.”
[521] Carlyle.
[522] Chateaubriand.
[523] From “North-Western France.”
[524] From “North-Western France.”
[525] From “North-Western France.”
[526] From “North-Western France.”
[527] From “Biographical Sketches.”
[528] Alas! this was actually the case a very few months afterwards. The dear Canon Venables died of influenza on the 5th of March 1895, and his gentle loving wife only survived him _one day_.
[529] She was daughter of an Earl of Thanet.
[530] Shakspeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
[531] “Whose voice seemed faint through long disuse of speech.”
[532] Of “Diana Tempest,” &c.
[533] In “The High Tide in Lincolnshire.”
[534] Philip Henry, 4th Earl.
[535] Jerome K. Jerome.
[536] Memoires de “Madame.”
[537] “John Inglesant.”
[538] Henri Frederic Amiel.
[539] Louisa May, daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott.
[540] In three years the sale amounted to 87,000 copies.
[541] Daughter of Rev. Edward Payson, afterwards Mrs. Hopkins.
[542] Thomas Hardy, the novelist, resides at Max Gale, near Dorchester, amid the scenery of his Wessex novels and stories.
[543] Mrs. Beecher Stowe in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
[544] The others were Lady Wellesley, Lady Stafford, and Mrs. M’Tavish.
[545] Bought out of a cart in Paris, died 1753.
[546] The second saying, ‘I have been here three months, and have seen a little;’--the third, ‘I have been here three years, and am only beginning to understand it.’
[547] Alfred Tennyson in 1892.
[548] George Eliot’s Letters.
[549] This very popular and promising son of Lord Carlisle was killed at the battle of Omdurman, September 2, 1898.
[550] Wordsworth.
[551] Coleridge, ‘Fears in Solitude.’
[552] “Arridet placidum radiis crispantibus aequor.”--_Rutilius._
[553] Lady Winchelsea’s “Reverie.”
[554] Eccl. vii. 29.
[555] De Musset.
[556] Author of “A Lilac Sun-Bonnet,” &c.
[557] Author of “A Window in Thrums,” which brought him £4000.
[558] Madame de Staël.
[559] Afterwards bought by his descendant for £8000.
[560] Killed, alas! in the South African War of 1900.
[561] Died 1839.
[562] The American edition, omitting nothing and doing full justice to the woodcuts, is in two rather thin volumes.
[563] Washington Irving’s Letters.
[564] Anthony Hope in “Mr. Witt’s Widow.”
[565] _Née_ De Bunsen.
[566] Said by Wasisewski of Catherine II. of Russia.
[567] Florence Montgomery in “Colonel Norton.”
[568] “Colonel Norton.”
[569] See Vol. i.
[570] Elisée Reclus.
[571] Carlyle.
[572] Rev. Joseph Parker.
[573] Burns.
[574] John Bright.
[575] Purg. v. 13-15.
[576] Browning.
[577] Of 60 Grosvenor Street.
[578] Tennyson.
[579] Pierre Loti.
[580] Frances, daughter of Pierce Butler of Philadelphia by Fanny Kemble, his wife, married to the Hon. James Wentworth Leigh, Dean of Hereford.
[581] Politian.
[582] Henry Taylor, “The Eve of the Conquest.”
[583] Catherine Stanley--Mrs. C. Vaughan.
[584] S. Simon.
[585] Trans. by Lowell.
[586] “Von dem Fesseln geistiger Berniertheit.”--_Goethe._
[587] Gabrielle d’Annunzio.
[588] Tennyson.
[589] Margaret L. Woods.
[590] “Nich. Brome slew ye minister of Baddesley church, findynge him in his pier (parlour) chockinge his wife under ye chinne, and to expiate these bloody offences and crimes, he built ye steeple and raysed ye church body 10 foote higher, as is seene at this day in ye churche, and boughte 3 belles for ye same churche. In his epitaph in ye churche, ye building of ye churche and steeple was expressed; he died ye 29 daye of August, ano 1517. I have seen ye king’s pdon for itt, and ye Pope’s pdon, and the penance there enjoined him.”--_MS. of Henry Ferrers, quoted by Dugdale_. (Nich. Brome really died October 1517.)
[591] “Quiet Hours.”
[592] Johnson on Levett.
[593] Shakspeare, ‘King Lear.’
[594] See vol. i. p. 186.
[595] Lowell.
[596] Whittier.
[597] S. T. Coleridge, Letter to Thomas Poole.
[598] Old Play.
[599] George Eliot.
[600] J. Greenleaf Whittier, Letters, 1867.
[601] “Roderick.”
[602] Blake.
[603] Henri Frédéric Amiel.
[604] From the Introduction to the Bùstàn of Shaikh Mushlihu-d-dín Sa’di Shírází. Translated by Sir E. Strachey.
[605] E. Spenser.
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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
Cosa e questo?=> Cosa è questo? {pg 88}
Le Notre=> Le Nôtre {pg 414}
insufficently=> insufficiently {pg 415}
Pius IX., Giovanni Maria Mastai-Feretti, Pope=> Pius IX., Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, Pope {index}
Eugéne Beauharnais, Prince, i. 20.=> Eugène Beauharnais, Prince, i. 20. {index}
Lubeck, v. 98.=> Lübeck, v. 98. {index}
Le Notre=> Le Nôtre {pg 414}
Riano, Emilia de Guyangos, Madame de, iv. 40, 41, 400; v. 277, 281.=> Riaño, Emilia de Guyangos, Madame de, iv. 40, 41, 400; v. 277, 281. {index}