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1857

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

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During this Session I have become intimate with some persons of whom I knew comparatively little before. The Dunravens1 I have seen constantly and a great intimacy has from peculiar causes grown up there.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 35 , December 2009 , pp. 93 - 94
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 2009

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1 Edwin Richard Wyndham-Quin (1812–1871), 3rd Earl of Dunraven (1850), archaeologist and antiquarian; and his wife, Augusta.

2 Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer (1803–1873), 1st Baron Lytton (1866), novelist and statesman. Con. MP for Hertfordshire (1852–1866), Colonial Secretary (May 1858–June 1859). Among his many novels are The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) and Rienzi (1835).

3 Edward Henry Stanley (1826–1893), 15th Earl of Derby (1869). Con. MP for Kings Lynn (1848–1869), Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (1852), Colonial Secretary (February–May 1858), Secretary of State for India (1859), Foreign Secretary (1868 and 1874–1878). Left Conservative Party in 1880; Colonial Secretary in Gladstone's government (1882–1885), Leader of Liberal Unionists, House of Lords (1886–1889).

4 The Matrimonial Causes Bill, popularly known as the Divorce Bill, introduced in the spring of 1857 by Palmerston, would allow, for the first time, for a divorce to be obtained in a court of law. It was much opposed by the Church and Gladstone, but was eventually passed by the Commons on 25 August (see S. Walpole, The History of Twenty-five Years, 4 vols (London, 1904), I, pp. 94–105). Carnarvon spoke against the bill several times during its passage.

5 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil (1830–1903), Viscount Cranborne (1865) 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1868); Secretary of State for India (1866–1867, 1874–1876), Foreign Secretary (1878–1880), Leader of Opposition, House of Lords (1881–1885), Leader of the Conservative Party (1885–1902), Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary (1885–1886), Prime Minister (1886), Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary (1887–1892, 1895–1900), Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal (1900–1902). William Schomberg Robert Kerr (1832–1870), 8th Marquess of Lothian (1841). Sir Michael Robert Shaw-Stewart (1836–1903), Con. MP for Renfrewshire (1855–1865). Henry T. Jenkinson, barrister, Carnarvon's cousin. Hon. Wilbraham Egerton (1832–1909), 2nd Baron Egerton (1883), 1st Earl Egerton (1897); Con. MP for Cheshire North (1858–1868) and for Cheshire Mid-division (1868–1883). Frederick Lygon (1831–1890), 6th Earl of Beauchamp (1866), Con. MP for Tewkesbury (1857–1863) and for Worcestershire West (1863–1866), Lord of the Admiralty (March–June 1859). Dudley Francis Stuart Ryder (1831–1900), Viscount Sandon (1847), 3rd Earl of Harrowby (1882); Con. MP for Lichfield (1856–1859) and for Liverpool (1868–1882), Vice-President, Committee of Council on Education (1874–1878), President of the Board of Trade (1878–1880), Lord Privy Seal (1885–1886). The majority of these were Carnarvon's Eton and/or Christ Church, Oxford contemporaries.