Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington

After leaving Staffordshire the Leveson-Gower family moved to Suffolk to live at Wherstead Lodge near Ispwich.GF recollected an eventful visit to Wherstead Lodge by the Duke of Wellington in 1822 or 1823...

Her new house was one of the first completed on a new estate by builder-entrepreneur Thomas Cubitt . In January 1838, when she and her husband moved in, the area was still green, almost rural...

Charlotte Brontë wrote to CG to voice her admiration: not the echo of another mind—the pale reflection of a reflection—but the result of original observation, and faithful delineation from actual life.Edward Copeland finds...

The apochryphal story that the Duke of Wellington returned one of Wilson's blackmailing letters with the scribbled annotation write and be d—d (universally converted by folklore to publish and be damned) originates not...

Guizot , the French Minister of Public Instruction, was ordered by Louis Philippe to translate the Illustrations for the French national schools. He considered HM to be the only woman ever to have affected legislation...

AO 's admiration for military heroes also extended to Kosciusko and later to the Duke of Wellington and General Lafayette . In other respects, however, she fully shared the anti-war stance of her fellow Quakers.

BBBD was a woman whose talent and energy found many other outlets besides writing. She performed as a fortune-teller at a social gathering.Fanny Kemble in Recollections of a Girlhood remembered her as a...

Mrs Littleton was a niece of the Duke of Wellington .

Her next salon was frequented by such luminaries as Alexander I , Talleyrand , and the Duke of Wellington .

The Tuckers had an active social life. The children acted in their father's plays, and as they grew older the family often entertained at home or attended dinner parties. The fancy-dress ball they gave for...

MB had a lifelong interest in the theatre; she attended performances frequently and she, her family, and friends were frequently involved in acting and producing plays privately. On one occasion in 1837 she found herself...

In the spring of 1833 AAB was presented at Court, where she met the Duke of Wellington among others. Ada began at this time to express to her mother a desire for increased independence.

Her many literary friendships, maintained in part by correspondence, included those with Joanna Baillie and Mary Russell Mitford (who first met each other in her drawing-room), Catherine Fanshawe , and Mary Tighe (with whom she...

Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward , Henrietta Maria Bowdler (who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB as her veillard [sic] or old...

JWC watched the Duke of Wellington 's elaborately staged funeral procession from Bath House.