Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Canning, Castlereagh
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...
National or international item
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...
Building item
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.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
105
After July 1822: The Bishop of Clogher was arrested for sexual...
Building item
After July 1822
The Bishop of Clogher was arrested for sexual involvement (sodomy) with a guardsman.
Crompton, Louis. Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England. University of California Press, 1985.
300-5
12 August 1822: The new Marquess of Londonderry, better known...
National or international item
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.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1282
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