Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
Standard Name: Castlereagh, Robert Stewart,,, Viscount
Used Form: Lord Castlereagh
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | They had houses, or mansions, in Tyrone, in Scotland, and at Stanmore Priory near London; they treated the celebrated writer as a kind of household pet, even making fun of her nationalist... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Elizabeth had also collaborated on Percy's earliest book of verse. Finnerty had been tried in February for libelling Castlereagh
. He was imprisoned, and was supported by distinguished Whigs when he petitioned parliament in June... |
| Publishing | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | She wrote it while a member of the Marquess of Abercorn
''s household, where she read it aloud in the evenings to less than informed criticism. As before, she and Phillips
could not agree on... |
Timeline
21 September 1809
The political rivals Canning
of the British Foreign Office
and Castlereagh
, who was about to be removed from the War Office
, fought a dawn duel on Putney Heath south of London.
23 February 1820
In the Cato Street Conspiracy, a group of revolutionaries picked this day to assassinate members of the Cabinet
at a private dinner; the plot failed.
After July 1822
The Bishop of Clogher was arrested for sexual involvement (sodomy) with a guardsman.
12 August 1822
The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known as Viscount Castlereagh
, killed himself: he was seen as the political author of Wellington
's victories and of repressive policies at home.