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Full name: Théophile Abauzit.
ID: pe064
Sex: Male
Nationality: French
Occupation: Priest
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: French Protestant priest who became pastor of the French church in the City of London
("30th March two elders of the French conformist church of St Martin’s Ongar
petitioned Lord Hawkesbury, after 2nd Earl of Liverpool, for the appointment of
the Rev. Mr Abuazit as Pastor" BL Add MS 38241 f. 125). Author of Observations
on the Expediency of Publishing Only Improved Versions of the Bible, for the
Continent (1817). Son of Firmin Abauzit (1679–1767).
Sources:
Appointed by his stepfather Lord Hobart to accompany him as secretary on his trip to India in 1794.
Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I. 235; Keppel Sovereign
Queen (1974), 102-03; Ilchester note in Lady Holland Journal "Son of
Thomas Adderley, Esq., of Innishannon, Co. Cork, and Margaretta, daughter of
Edmund Boarke, Esq. of Urrey. His mother married, secondly, in 1792, Robert,
Lord Hobart" (I. 235) The Journal also mentions his being smitten with
Lady Holland (pe001) in 1799 (I. 245). Keppel claims that he was infatuated with Lady Holland
(pe001) in 1799 and that Lucy Fitzgerald (pe002) fell in love with him
following this infatuation.
Number of appearances: 72
Notes:
Dined on:
Full name: Sir Gilbert Affleck. 2nd Baronet Affleck
ID: pe040
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Birth: 1740
Death: 1808
Number of appearances: 35
Notes: Seat at Dalham Hall (Suffolk). Papers in the BL (Add MSS 51807-08). Keppel
calls him "a helpful, kindly man" (Sovereign Lady, 74). Played the role
of liaison between Lady Holland and the lawyers of Sir Godfrey Webster (her first
husband) and gave her away at her 1797 marriage to Lord Holland (See Lady Holland
Journals II 104, I 147). Husband of pe041 (after 1796), thereafter
Stepfather of pe001.
Dined on:
Full name: Lady Mary Affleck. Née Clark, formerly Vassall.
ID: pe041
Sex: Female
Nationality: Anglo-American
Occupation: Enslaver (aka 'Slave Owner')
Birth: 1748
Death: 1835
Number of appearances: 147
Notes: Provided childcare of pe217 and pe218. Went to France on 1814 trip. Inherited
part of her first husband's (Richard Vassall) estate containing enslaved people on
his death in 1795. Wife of pe040 (after 1796); Mother of pe001.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
04 April 1801, 17 June 1802, 08 July 1802, 06 December 1805
Notes: Accompanied Hollands on Tour of Europe 1801–1805. Contributor to the
Edinburgh Review and noted diarist. Lived at Holland House.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
08 July 1802, 13 July 1805
Full name: Don Diego de Alvear y
Ponce de León.
ID: pe081
Sex: Male
Nationality: Spanish
Occupation: Military Officer; Politician (foreign)
Birth: 1749
Death: 1830
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Renowned military commander in South America, on his return journey to Spain in
1804 his flotilla was involved in an altercation with a British flotilla which
became the Battle of Cabo Santa María. His wife and all but one of his children
were killed and his belongings sunk. He was taken as a prisoner to London, here he
enjoyed some honours and privileges and was partially economically reimbursed for
his losses. He returned to Spain in 1805, but came back to live in England from
1814–1817.
Dined on:
Full name: Lord William
Pitt Amherst. Baron Amherst of Montreal; 1st Earl Amherst of
Arracan (after 1827).
Full name: Countess Sarah Amherst. née Archer; Formerly Windsor, Dowager Countess of
Plymouth
ID: pe082
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Occupation: Naturalist
Birth: 1762
Death: 1838
Number of appearances: 10
Notes: Lived in Bengal 1823-1827, where her husband was Governor-General. Identified,
and gives her name to, several species of flora and fauna. Wife of pe016.
Dined on:
Full name: Antonio Araújo e
Azevedo. Le
Chevalier
ID: pe085
Sex: Male
Nationality: Portuguese
Occupation: Diplomat; Politician (foreign)
Birth: 1754
Death: 1817
Sources: José Baptiste de Sousa, Holland House and Portugal
(2018), 58, 66, 74-5.
Number of appearances: 4
Notes: “1st and only Conde da Barca, Portuguese diplomat and statesman, the son of
António Pereira Pinto de Araújo e Azevedo and Maria Francisca de Araújo e Azevedo.
Araújo was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to The Hague (1787,
1801–2), Minister Plenipotentiary to the French Republic (1795, 1797 and 1801) and
Minister to Russia (1802–3). He was recalled in 1804 to take the foreign ministry,
a position he accumulated with that of Kingdom Minister (Home Secretary) from
1806, and which he held until the transference of the Portuguese Court to Rio de
Janeiro in November 1807. While in Brazil Araújo was Foreign Secretary (1815–17),
Home Secretary (1817) and Minister of Navy and Ultramar (1814–17). Araújo was
created Conde da Barca on 17 December 1815 and died in Rio de Janeiro 21 June
1817.” (de Sousa 74-5).
Dined on:
Full name: Joan Argiropulo.
ID: pe073
Sex: Male
Nationality: Greek
Occupation: Diplomat
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Dinner Book entry for 16 February 1802 calls him 'The Greek chargé d'affaires from
Constantinople'.
Dined on:
Full name: Dr Edward Ash.
ID: pe086
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Education: Christ Church; Grand Tour
Occupation: Physician
Birth: 1764
Death: 1829
Sources: Munk, Rolls of the Royal College of Physicians (1878)
II. 465.
Sources: Obituary by Samuel Parr Gentleman's Magazine XCIII
(March, 1823), 281-83.
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Curate at Tettenhall (Staffordshire) in 1797,
then Rector of Ponteland (Northumberland) from 1811. Former pupil of pe354.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Bathill.
ID: pe104
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
26 July 1799
Full name: Mrs Emily Charlotte Beauclerk. Née Ogilvie; A.K.A. "Mimi"
ID: pe008
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1778
Death: 1832
Sources:
Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I 232-244; lchester Home
of the Hollands (1937), 166. Thomas Medwin Life of Shelley
(1847), 232–35
Number of appearances: 50
Notes: Daughter of pe349; Wife of pe110; Mother of pe106, 107. Lived at Money Hill
(pl046), Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Distant relation to Holland. Lady Holland's
Journals suggest that the Hollands had a hand in arranging her
marriage in 1799. Later became friends with Byron and the Shelleys in Pisa.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
07 April 1802
Full name: Earl Aubrey Beauclerk. Earl of Burford; 6th Duke of St Albans (after
1802)
Notes: Member of Brooks's (pl020). Brother of pe057.
Dined on:
Full name: Jeremy Bentham.
ID: pe116
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Occupation: Author; Philosopher
Birth: 1748
Death: 1832
Sources:
ODNB Entry;Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (1968–94), VII. 310, 330, 364, 406,
414–16, 529, 568, 570; Bowers, "The Many Rooms of Holland House",
Re-evaluating the Literary Coterie (2016), 169–172.
Full name: Madame Adélaïde de
la Briche. Née Prévost.
ID: pe284
Sex: Female
Nationality: French
Education: Grand Tour
Occupation: Hostess; Author
Birth: 1755
Death: 1844
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Famous European traveller and salonnière who, despite connections to French
Royalty, did not emigrate from France during the Revolution. For mention of her at
Holland House see de Zurich, Une Femme Heureuse: Madame de la Briche
(1934), 371-72.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Henry
Peter Brougham. 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (after
1830).
Notes: Buonaiuti took up secretarial and tutorial roles at Holland House from 1800
onwards and was later responsible for the house's library. He was a regular writer of
libretti for operas at the King's Theatre, including I Due Svizzeri
(1800) and La Morte di Cleopatra (1801) and was poet to the King's Opera
from 1809–1811. He also published Italian Scenery; Representing the Manners,
Customs, and Amusements of the Different States of Italy (1806) and was a
regular contributor to the Literary Gazette on Italian topics from
1817.
Dined on:
Full name: Sir Francis Burdett. Fifth Baronet of Foremark (after 1794).
Notes: No longer technically 'Major' having been made Lieutenant-Colonel in
1800.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Cadogan.
ID: pe131
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown. Possibles include Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan (1728–1807);
Charles Cadogan, 2nd Earl Cadogan (1749–1832); Henry Cadogan (1780–1813).
Full name: Monsieur Charles
Alexandre de Calonne. Count of
Hannonville
ID: pe135
Sex: Male
Nationality: French
Occupation: Politician (foreign); Lawyer
Birth: 1734
Death: 1802
Sources:
Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), II 34, 36-7, 160.
Number of appearances: 19
Notes: Involved in financial reform for Louis XVI as Controller of Finances (1783–87),
but eventually clashed with various assemblies and councils. He was dismissed in
1787 and fled in exile to Britain. He briefly attempted to be elected to the
Estates-General in 1789, but was denied entry to France. He lived in London until
1802 when he was permitted to return to France, where he died about a month after
his arrival.
Dined on:
Full name: Lord George Campbell. Marquess of Lorne until 1806, later 6th Duke of Argyll. Sometime 'Lord
Lorne' in Dinner Book.
Full name: Jérôme Marie Champion de
Cicé. Archbishop of
Bordeaux
ID: pe121
Sex: Male
Nationality: French
Occupation: Priest
Birth: 1735
Death: 1810
Number of appearances: 5
Notes: Lived in exile in London 1795–1802. Archbishop of Bordeaux 1781-1801;
Archbishop of Aix 1802–1810.
Dined on:
Full name: Charlotte.
ID: pe144
Sex: Female
Occupation: Servant
Notes: Accompanied Hollands on Tour of France in summer 1802.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr David Chauvet. "Chavet" in Dinner Book.
ID: pe145
Sex: Male
Nationality: Swiss
Occupation: Tutor / Schoolmaster
Sources: Hermione Hobhouse (ed.) Survey of London: Volume 42,
Kensington Square To Earl's Court (1986), 40-46; Journal of Elizabeth,
Lady Holland (1908), I 234.
Number of appearances: 4
Notes: Ran and academy for the education of young gentleman at 41-42 Kensington Square
from 1789–1799. Friend of pe049. Called a ‘Professeur de Littérature franciase à
Mansion House, sous le patronage de Lord Holland’ in G. B. Licheri Cosso
Poesie e Prose (1827), vii.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Clifford.
ID: pe147
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Cock.
ID: pe148
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 3
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Full name: Lord Harvey Christian Combe
. AKA 'Alderman
Coombe'.
Notes: Unknown. Possibly Charles Cornwallis, Second Marquess Conrwallis (1774–1823)
who would have overlapped with Lord Holland (pe029) at Eton, or a misspelling of Mr George Cornewall (pe037).
Notes: Husband of pe157. Cowper was born in Florence where his parents had lived since
1759 and was sent to England in 1781. Member of the King of Clubs (ev011).
Fellow of the Royal Society. Cowper was responsible for moving the family seat to
Panshanger, Hertfordshire in 1801. Like his father, he was a prominent collector
of European Art and a number of paintings from his collection are currently housed
at Firle Place, Sussex.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
08 May 1801
Full name: Lady Emily Cowper. Née Lamb, later Temple and Viscountess Palmerston (after 1839).
Notes: Known as 'The Fish'. Resident of pl085 and member of Brooks's (pl020).
Dined on:
Full name: Comte
de Creptowitch.
ID: pe159
Sex: Male
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Diplomat
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Described in Liechtenstein Holland House (1875), 96 as a "Russian
Diplomatist". A Count Creptowitch was Russian ambassador to the UK in the 1850s,
but this may be a descendant.
Dined on:
Full name: Mrs Frances Anne
Crewe. Lady Crewe. Née Greville
Notes: Unknown. The famous Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau was guillotined in 1794,
so this could be a daughter, although none of her daughters appear to take this
title.
Notes: Made his name with his 1769 translation of Virgil's Georgics, which
led to his recommendation by Voltaire to the Académie Francaise to which he was
admitted in 1774. In 1794 he fled Revolutionary France for Switzerland and then
Germany, before settling in London from 1799 to 1802. Here he translated
Paradise Lost and lived under the patronage of Georgiana Cavendish,
Duchess of Devonshire (pe141).
Dined on:
Full name: William Dickenson.
ID: pe169
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown. Possibilities include William Dickinson (1756–1822), antiquary and
political manager (see ODNB Entry ) or William Dickinson (1745–1806) MP for Great
Marlow, Rye, and Somerset (see Hist. Parl. Entry).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Dickenson.
ID: pe170
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 3
Notes: Unknown. This could be the same person as pe169.
Dined on:
Full name: Lord Edward Digby. 2nd Earl Digby, Viscount Coleshill (until 1793).
ID: pe050
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Occupation: Politician (Lords); Military Officer
Birth: 1773
Death: 1856
Number of appearances: 38
Notes: Took his seat in the House of Lords in 1794, but Hansard records that he made
no speeches. Actively involved in the Dorset Militia, serving as Lord
Lieutenant from 1808–1856.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Douglas
ID: pe038
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Full name: Lord Thomas Douglas. 5th Earl of Selkirk, 'Lord Selkirk', 'Lord
Douglas'
Sources: Earl of Ilchester, Home of the Hollands (1937), 168-69;
John Ingamells, Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers (1997), 313;
Paul Douglass, Lady Caroline Lamb (2004), 13–20.
Number of appearances: 126
Notes: Family physician, predecessor to pe079. Had been intermittently in the company
of Lady Holland (pe001) on European tour from 1791-92 and then in the company of Georgiana,
Duchess of Devonshire (pe141), and as personal physician and tutor to Harriet,
Countress of Devonshire (pe010), and Lady Caroline Lamb (pe290) in Europe from
1792 to 1798. Had gone with the Hollands on the tour to Northern Germany in July
1800, but failing health meant he was replaced by John Allen in 1802. "Whatever
his medical knowledge, Drew seems to have been steeped in metaphysics and the
natural sciences, and to have a good knowledge of the arts" (Ilchester).
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
26 July 1799, 13 May 1800, 10 July 1800, 28 May 1801, 06 June 1801
Notes: Contributor to The Rolliad and The Anti-Jacobin, editor of
Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances (1801) addresee of 5th
Canto of Walter Scott's Marmion (1805).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Charles Rose Ellis. First Baron Seaford (after 1826).
Notes: Contributed numerous articles to the Edinburgh Review and
Quarterly Review on Greek literature, and edited numerous editions of
the Greek dramatists. Member of the King of Clubs (see ev011).
Full name: Lady Augusta Fane. Later Parker (1804–1809), then Paget (1809–1871).
ID: pe102
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1786
Death: 1871
Number of appearances: 4
Notes: Wife of pe012 (1804–1809).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Fawkener.
ID: pe197
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 7
Notes: On seven occasions the Dinner Book does not distinguish which Fawkener is at dinner so
these entires are either William (pe198) or Everard (pe199).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Everard Fawkener.
ID: pe198
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Occupation: Military Officer; Civil Servant
Birth: 1752
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Captain and later Lieutenant in the 11th Hussars. Had an affair with the wife
of pe176. Commissioner of Stamps from 1793–1803. Brother of pe199
Dined on:
Full name: Mr William Augustus
Fawkener.
ID: pe199
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Occupation: Diplomat; Civil Servant
Birth: 1750
Death: 1811
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Clerk of the Privy Council from 1779, and was sent on various European
diplomatic missions throughout the 1780s and 90s. In the 1800s he was
sometimes secretary to pe052. Brother of pe198.
Notes: Defended John Allen who was convicted alongside Arthur O'Connor in 1798. Tried
and convicted along with pe063 for the riot which occured after sentencing. See
Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), II 103 for an account of
his dinner of HH in June 1800: 'Fergusson, who is just liberated from the
captivity of a year, called so near the moment of dinner that it was impossible,
with the most adverse dispositions towards him, not to invite him. He accordingly
accepted the proposal. His beauty is much praised, I did not admire him; about his
mouth he has a mean expression. My accueil was not flattering or warm; as
a guest he had my civility, otherwise a particle of notice would not have been
bestowed. I neither like the man nor his cause.'
Dined on:
Full name: Lady Lucy
Anne Fitzgerald. Married (1802) name "Foley"
Full name: Lady Emilia Mary [Emily] Fitzgerald
. Née Lennox;
Duchess of Leinster (until 1773), thereafter Dowager Duchess of Leinster, other
married name Ogilvie (after 1774).
Full name: General Richard Fitzpatrick. The Honourable; General (after 1803); A.K.A
"Uncle"
ID: pe019
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Occupation: Politician (Commons); Military Officer; Poet
Birth: 1748
Death: 1813
Sources:
ODNB Entry; Holland, Further Memoirs of the Whig Party
(1905), 171–2.
Number of appearances: 105
Notes: Brother of pe045; Uncle of pe029 (Holland's father married Fitzpatrick's
sister). Notable satirist see The Bath Picture (1791) and Dorinda: a
Town Eclogue. Contributor to The Rolliad. Founding Member of the
Whig Club (ev012).
Dined on:
Full name: Lady Anne Fitzpatrick. Sometimes entered as "Ladies Fitzpatrick"
ID: pe043
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1768
Death: 1841
Number of appearances: 10
Notes: Illegitimate child, initially lived with foster parents but brought into Ossory
household in 1771. Subject of portrait by Reynolds. Daughter of pe045, Sister of pe044.
Dined on:
Full name: Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick. Sometimes entered as "Ladies Fitzpatrick"
ID: pe044
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1774
Death: 1841
Number of appearances: 9
Notes: Subject of portraits by Reynolds and Wilkin . Daughter of pe045, Sister of pe043.
Dined on:
Full name: Lord John Fitzpatrick. 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory
Notes: Member of Brooks's (pl020). Brother of pe019, Uncle of pe029. Resident of pl014
and pl107.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Fitzpatrick.
ID: pe207
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown. Could be another man called Fitzpatrick or there could be an omission
of 'General' (i.e. pe019) or 'Lord' (i.e. pe045).
Dined on:
Full name: William Wentworth Fitzwilliam. 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (Peerage of Ireland) 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam (Peerage
of Great Britain). Wentworth-Fitzwilliam (after 1807).
Notes: Journalist and publisher of newspapers in Paris during the Revolution, Fiévée
appeared to have Royalist sympathies for which he was imprisoned during the
Terror. He worked as a spy for Bonaparte in England and published Lettres
sur l'Angleterre (1803).
Notes: Daughter of pe041; Wife of pe029; Mother of pe217, pe218, pe220, pe455,
pe457.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
26 July 1799, 13 May 1800, 23 May 1800, 07 June 1800, 21 February 1801, 07 March 1801, 06 June 1801, 07 March 1802, 30 April 1802, 08 July 1802
Full name: Miss Caroline Fox. "Honorable Miss"
ID: pe003
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1767
Death: 1845
Sources:
ODNB Entry; Portrait of Caroline
Fox; Cynthia Parks Hamilton 'Caroline Fox, 1767–1845; An Aristocratic Woman of her Time' PhD Thesis, University of Iowa (1995).
Notes: Son of pe001 and pe029 (born out of wedlock); Brother of pe218 and
pe220.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
26 July 1799, 13 May 1800, 10 July 1800, 14 January 1801, 17 May 1801, 06 June 1801, 07 January 1802, 08 January 1802, 01 February 1802, 17 June 1802, 08 July 1802, 11 August 1805
Full name: Henry Edward Fox. 4th Baron Holland of Holland (after 1840), 4th Baron Holland of Foxley
(after 1840).
Notes: Son of General H. E. Fox (brother of pe034) and pe221; Brother of pe216 and
pe219.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
04 April 1801
Full name:
Stephen Fox. Hon.
ID: pe220
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Birth: 1799
Death: 1800
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: The first child of the Hollands' marriage, who died at less than a year old.
Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I 249 notes a bad case of
smallpox in May 1799, and the entry for Jan 25 1801 (II 125) reads: "The complaint
in my eyes and alarm about my poor child prevented me from enjoying myself during
the last two months of my foriegn excursion. After passing many watchful nights,
and latterly for 8 together, by the side of my dear boy, he was snatched from me,
alas, for ever. He died on the day devoted to mirth, his dear father's birthday
[i.e. 21 November 1800]'. Son of pe001 and pe029; Brother of pe217 and
pe218.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
18 November 1800
Full name: Mrs Elizabeth
Bridget Fox. Née Cane, formerly Armistead (until
1795).
Notes: Withering judgment of her from an entry announcing C. J. Fox's retirement from
public life in Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I 149–150: 'Mrs
Armistead, I understand, possesses still those merits which, when united to the
attractions of youth, a degree of beauty, and much celebrity, placed her above her
competitors for the glory of ruining and seducing the giddy youth of the day. She
has mildness and little rapacity, but those negative merits, when bereft of the
other advantages, constitute but an insipid resource in solitude. Besides, as she
still maintains the immoderate love of expense which her former life led her into,
she may almost be called a pernicious connection, as disadvantageous for his
comfort as for his reputation; for after all that has passed, fresh pecuniary
embarrassments will be discreditable to him.' Wife of pe034.
Dined on:
Full name: Ms. Marie Fox. Married Prince Louis of Liechtenstein to become Princess of Liechtenstein in
1872.
ID: pe476
Sex: Female
Nationality: French
Occupation: Author; Royalty
Birth: 1850
Death: 1878
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Author of Holland House (1874). Adopted daughter of pe218.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
07 March 1802
Full name: Edward Fox
Fitzgerald. Eddy
ID: pe179
Sex: Male
Nationality: Anglo-Irish
Education: Eton
Occupation: Military Officer
Birth: 1794
Death: 1863
Number of appearances: 9
Notes: Son of the rebel Lord Edward Fitzgerald (who was a cousin of C J Fox). Cornet
in the 10th Hussars. Nephew of pe302.
Notes: His father (Revd. Phillip Francis) was a tutor at Holland House in the 1750s.
Identified as author of various anonymous letters to the Public
Advertiser in the 1760s, and is one of the most convincing candidates for
the authorship of the Letters of Junius (1772). Severe critic of Warren
Hastings.
Notes: Entries in the Dinner Book simply to 'Frere' are to John Hookham. Founder of the
Quarterly Review and contributor to the Anti-Jacobin. Author
of The Monks and the Giants (1817) [AKA Whistlecraft].
Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I 243-4 (before the Dinner Books
began) notes a dinner of Thursday 25 April 1799 at which the had "all the
Anti-Jacobin wits to dinner [...] We had Frere, the first time since
his appointment to Canning's place. Since favouritism is à l'ordre du
jour, I am rather glad he is a sharer, tho' I think he cannot make a good
man of business. He is distrait and poetical, and in lieu of writing a
dispatch may be tempted to pen a sonnet.' Brother of pe225 and pe226.
Notes: Unknown. An account of the mysterious Fuller is given in Journal of
Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I 232: 'On Saturday (23rd) we had a very
numerous party, and one person who never came before, who diverted us all by his
manner. I invited him, as I knew he would be good-natured, and, therefore, likely
to be of service about me seeing my children. I knew him at the period of my
solitary confinement in Sussex: his name is Fuller. His vulgar bluntness excited
much mirth; he thought the laugh was raised by his waggery, so was
delighted'.
Dined on:
Full name: Sir Thomas Gage. 7th Baronet Hengrave
ID: pe229
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Education: Grand Tour
Occupation: Naturalist; Draughtsman
Birth: 1781
Death: 1820
Sources: Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine XCIII (1823),
607–608.
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Appears to have lived at Rome in the last years of his life, where he
befriended Thomas Mathias (1753–1820).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Benjamin Garlike.
ID: pe230
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Education: Grand Tour
Occupation: Diplomat
Birth: 1766
Death: 1815
Sources: Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine LXXXV (1815),
564-5..
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Diplomat in the service of Lord Auckland in Spain, Russia, Austria, and Sweden
from 1788–1793.
Dined on:
Full name: Giovanne.
ID: pe232
Occupation: Servant
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Accompanied the Hollands on their trip to Brighton in June 1801.
Notes: Author of Political Justice (1793) and Caleb Williams
(1794).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Gordon
ID: pe039
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Unknown. Could refer to pe108, pe234, or pe235.
Dined on:
Full name: Don Roberto Gordon.
ID: pe234
Sex: Male
Nationality: Scottish
Occupation: Vinter
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Involved in the sale and importation of Sherry in Spain for Gordon & Co.,
the company started by his uncle Arthur Gordon (pe235). Mentioned in Journal
of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I 223 as an attendee of a party in 23
March 1799, and in The Spanish Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1910),
51 in an entry of 1803.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Arthur Gordon. "Gordon of Xeres"
ID: pe235
Sex: Male
Nationality: Scottish
Occupation: Vinter
Birth: 1729
Death: 1815
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Founder of Sherry Gordon & Co., distant relative of Byron who visited him
in 1809. Uncle of pe234.
Notes: Member of Brooks's (pl020); Member of the Whig Club (ev012). Husband of pe243;
Brother of pe244. Future Prime Minister.
Dined on:
Full name: Dr Hager.
ID: pe247
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Hamilton
ID: pe027
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 3
Notes: Unknown. Cannot be Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), as he did not return from
Naples until 1800, or Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798) who is deceased by the date of
these dinners.
Dined on:
Full name: John James Hamilton. 1st Marquess of Abercorn
Sources: Hist. Parl. Entry; DIB Entry; A. P. W. Malcomson, "A Lost Natural Leader: John
James Hamilton, First Marquess of Abercorn (1756-1818)" Proceedings of the
Royal Irish Academy LXXXVIII 61-86.
Notes: Member of Brooks's (pl020). Subject of epitaph by Georgiana, Duchess of
Devonshire (pe141) in Gentleman's Magazine 76 (1806), 512.
Dined on:
Full name: Major Hare.
ID: pe251
Sex: Male
Occupation: Military Officer
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown. Could be Sir John Hare CB (d. 1846), who commanded the 27th Regiment
of Foot at Waterloo, but he would only have been a Lieutenant when he dined at HH (made Brevet
Major in 1813, and Major in 1818).
Dined on:
Full name: Lady Jane Harley.
ID: pe253
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1796
Death: 1872
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Daughter of pe254 and pe353.
Dined on:
Full name: Earl Edward Harley. 5th Earl of Oxford, Earl Mortimer (after 1790)
ID: pe254
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Education: Grand Tour
Occupation: Politician (Lords)
Birth: 1773
Death: 1848
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Father of pe253; Husband of pe353
Dined on:
Full name: Lady Jane
Elizabeth Harley. Née Scott; Countess of Oxford (after
1794).
ID: pe353
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1774
Death: 1824
Number of appearances: 6
Notes: Subject of 1797 portrait by Hoppner held by the Tate. Wife of pe254. Rumoured to have
had love affairs with Byron and pe128.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
07 March 1801
Full name: Lord Francis Rawdon
Edward Hastings. 1st Marquess of Hastings; 2nd Earl of Moira,
Lord Moira (after 1793).
ID: pe330
Sex: Male
Nationality: Anglo-Irish
Education: Grand Tour
Occupation: Politician (Lords); Colonial Administrator; Military Officer
Notes: Unknown. Could be Sir Thomas Freeman-Heathcote, 4th Baronet (1769–1825) or John Heathcote (1767-1838), cousin of Robert Heathcote (pe257) and
MP for Gatton (1796-1798) and Ripon (1798-1806).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Robert Heathcote. AKA 'Bob'
ID: pe257
Sex: Male
Nationality: English
Birth: 1775
Death: 1823
Number of appearances: 3
Notes: Admitted to Christ’s College Cambridge 1793. Second son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 3rd Baronet MP for Shaftesbury and Dorset.
Husband of Elizabeth Maria (Searle) Heathcote — married 30 Apr 1807 in St Martin in the Fields, Westminster.
Dined on:
Full name: Henry.
ID: pe252
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 4
Notes: Unknown and near-impossible to deduce which of the many Henrys in the Dinner Book this
refers to. Some of these references may refer to the 'Mr Henry' (pe258) who dined
on 21 March 1800.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Henry.
ID: pe258
Sex: Male
Nationality: Irish
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown. Described in Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), II 60
as 'a foolish, handsome, Irishman'.
Dined on:
Full name: Henry Herbert. Lord Porchester (1780–1793), later 1st Earl of Carnarvon.
Notes: Unknown. This person is described in Journal of Elizabeth, Lady
Holland (1908), I 34 as someone she 'knew at Sherborne'. Could be the
antiquarian and archeologist Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838).
Dined on:
Full name: Sir Benjamin Hobhouse. Baronet (after 1812).
Notes: Member of Brooks's (pl020). Brother of pe011 and pe268.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
08 July 1802
Full name: Lady Georgiana
Dorothy Howard. Née Cavendish; Lady Morpeth (after 1801),
Countess of Carlisle (after 1825).
ID: pe337
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1783
Death: 1858
Number of appearances: 8
Notes: Daughter of pe140 and pe141. Wife of pe011.
Dined on:
Full name: Dr Jan Ingenhousz. FRS
ID: pe061
Sex: Male
Nationality: Dutch
Occupation: Physician; Biologist
Birth: 1730
Death: 1799
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Conducted mass smallpox inoculations in England in the 1760s and Austria in the
1770s. Worked with Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) in the 1770s and is reputed to
have discovered photosynthesis in Experiments Upon Vegetables (1779).
Corresponded with Benjamin Franklin. Died at pl017.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr James.
ID: pe271
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 5
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Full name: Lady Emily Jefferyes. Lady Cahir, sometimes given as "Lady Cahier" (after
1793).
Notes: Author of Thoughts on the Restriction of Payments in Specie at the Banks of
England and Ireland (1803, 1804). Resident of pl048. Member of the King
of Clubs (see ev011).
Notes: Described in Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), II 47: 'A few
days back Mr. Kinnaird, eldest son of Ld. Kinnaird, dined here for the first time.
Being a Scotchman and having studied in a Scotch University, report puffs him
high, of course. Tho' it overdoes his deserts, yet he merits some praise. He is
clever and willing to please; one cannot pity him for shyness, as he
labours under no embarrassment upon that score. Living in the world will set his
head right and render him useful. He is an eager politician against
Ministers'.
Notes: Author of An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus (1786);
Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet (1791); The Landscape
(1794); and Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (1808).
Member of Brooks's (pl020); Member of the Society of Dilettanti; Member of the
King of Clubs (see ev011).
Dined on:
Full name: Lord Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound
(I). formerly Gilbert Elliot. Made Lord in 1797, and 1st Earl of Minto in
1813.
Full name: Vicomte Augustin Marie Xavier de la
Bintinaye. In Dinner Book as "Chevalier de la Bintinaye"
ID: pe146
Sex: Male
Nationality: French
Birth: 1754
Death: 1822
Number of appearances: 10
Notes: Hollands dined with him in Summer 1802 at Paris, see
Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland (1908), I 157. Nephew of
pe121.
Dined on:
Full name: Chevalier Ferdinand La
Cainea . Appears in Dinner Book
as "La Quinea"
ID: pe285
Sex: Male
Nationality: Italian
Occupation: Musician
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Amateur tenor and friend of the violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824).
Lived in London from the 1790s and married an English lady (Sophia Lewknor,
daughter of Sir Roger Lewknor). Involved in arbitration over the management of the
Italian Opera at the King's Theatre (pl049) in 1802–1803.
Dined on:
Full name: Marquis Gérard
de Lally-Tollendal.
ID: pe287
Sex: Male
Nationality: French
Occupation: Politician (foreign)
Birth: 1751
Death: 1830
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Son of the French-Irish Jacobite Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally (who was
executed for treason by France in 1766). His son spent much of his early life
attempting to have his father posthumously acquitted. Emigrated to Britain in 1789
and did not return to France until 1816.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr William Lamb. Later 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Notes: Brother of pe046, pe293, and pe294. Son of pe291, and pe292 (although reputed
to be the son of George IV (pe231)).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Patrick Lattin.
ID: pe299
Sex: Male
Nationality: Anglo-Irish
Occupation: Author; Military Officer
Birth: 1762
Death: 1839
Number of appearances: 9
Notes: Author of Observations on Dr. Duigenan's Fair Representation of the Present
Political State of Ireland (1800). Born in County Kildare and educated in
Paris and the University of Turin. Served in the French army and served in
Dillon’s Regiment commanded by his cousin Theobald Dillon. Went to Ireland in 1792
after the assassination of Dillon by his troops at Lille but returned to France
upon the crowning of Napoleon, settling in Paris where he translated Voltaire’s
works and produced several political pamphlets. See Memoirs, Journal &
Correspondence of Thomas Moore (1860) I 184 "Lord Holland told an
excellent story which he had heard from Lattin, of a trick practised to attract
people to a coffee-house in Paris, by announcing that they should see that an
animal between a rabbit and a carp; and when you went in the man told you, with a
grave face, that "M. Lacépède, the great naturalist, had just sent for the curious
animal, in order to make some experiment; "mais voici," added he, "ses respectable
parens (showing a rabbit and a carp) que vous trouverez très intéressans".
Dined on:
Full name: Miss Henrietta Anne Leclerc.
ID: pe300
Sex: Female
Nationality: English
Birth: 1773
Death: 1846
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Daughter of pe316 by his French mistress the Vicomtesse de Cambris (d.
1808).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Lennox.
ID: pe305
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown. Could be Charles Lennox (1764–1819), future 4th Duke of Richmond, but
at this point he was a 'General' not a 'Mr.'. Given that his father (pe316) is not
present at this dinner, it may be more likely that this is not part of the
Richmond family.
Full name: Mr John
Leslie. Titled in Dinner Book 'Mr Profr'
ID: pe307
Sex: Male
Nationality: Scottish
Occupation: Tutor / Schoolmaster
Birth: 1766
Death: 1832
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh University (1805), previously tutor to
the Wedgewood family. Author of Experimental Enquiries into the Nature and
Properties of Heat (1804), and contributor to the Edinburgh
Review.
Dined on:
Full name: Lord Granville Leveson-Gower. 1st Earl Granville (after 1833)
Notes: Wife of pe319. 3rd daughter and 5th child of Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd
Earl of Bute and his wife Mary née Wortley Montague, making her a grandchild of
the writer and traveller Lady Mary Wortley Montague.
Notes: Author of Letters to the Peers of Scotland (1794), A Letter on the
Present Measures of Finance (1798), Plan for Altering the Manner of
Collecting a Large Part of the Public Revenue (1799), An inquiry into
the nature and origin of public wealth (1804).
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
14 April 1802, 18 April 1802
Full name: Viscount James Maitland. Viscount Maitland (1789–1830); 9th Earl of Lauderdale (after
1830).
Notes: Friend and contemporary of Holland (pe029) and Canning (pe024) at Christ Church.
Graduated MA (1794) and went to Europe where he first met Lady Holland (pe001) in 1794.
Ordained (1799) and officiated at the christening of Stephen Fox (pe220) on 30
March 1799. Was in 1800 party to Germany and 1802 party to Europe. Was presented
by Holland with the parish of Brinkworth (Wiltshire), and then the Rectorship of
Winterslow (Wiltshire, pl068) in 1804. Tutored Henry Fox (pe218) 1816-1818. Canon
of Salisbury Cathedral from 1825.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
14 December 1801, 08 July 1802
Full name: Don Joaquin Mascarenas.
ID: pe326
Sex: Male
Nationality: Spanish
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr Matison.
ID: pe327
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Unknown.
Dined on:
Full name: Don Raymon de
la Maza.
ID: pe328
Sex: Male
Nationality: Spanish
Number of appearances: 4
Notes: MS by this man mentioned in De Gayangos, Catalogue of the manuscripts in
the Spanish language in the British Museum (1877) II 132.
Dined on:
Full name: Mengotti.
ID: pe329
Occupation: Servant
Number of appearances: 3
Notes: Accompanied the Hollands on Summer Tour of Germany in 1800; the Trip to
Brighton in Summer 1801; and the Tour of Europe begun in Summer 1802.
Dined on:
Mentioned on:
10 July 1800, 06 June 1801, 08 July 1802
Full name: Monsieur Louis-Mathieu Molé. 1st Count Molé (1809–1815).
ID: pe331
Sex: Male
Nationality: French
Occupation: Politician (foreign)
Birth: 1781
Death: 1855
Number of appearances: 1
Notes: Molé's father was a Parisian politican who was guillotined during the Terror,
causing him and his mother to flee France for Switzerland and then England. He
returned to France in 1805, where he served Napoleon in various roles including
Minister of Justice. He later served as Prime Minister. Husband of pe332.
Dined on:
Full name: Madame Caroline-Joséphine Molé. née de la Live
ID: pe332
Sex: Female
Nationality: French
Birth: 1781
Death: 1845
Number of appearances: 2
Notes: Wife of pe331; Daughter of pe284.
Dined on:
Full name: Mr James Monroe. In Dinner Book as "Mr Munro American Minister".
Notes: Monroe fought in the American War of Independence, served as the delegate from
Virginia at the Continental Congress from 1783–86, and then served in numerous
government roles under Presidents Washington, Adams, and Madison. He was Minister
to France from 1794–1796 and Minister to Britain from 1803 to 1807. He served as
the 5th President of the United States from 1817–1825. Known as a 'Founding
Father'. Monroe was an owner of enslaved people, and took several with him to serve at the White
House during his presidency. As Governor of Virginia in 1800 Monroe had supressed
uprisings of the enslaved, and he was also active in the American Colonization Society in
the 1820s which supported the movement of freed slaves to Africa and the
newly-formed colony of Liberia. The capital of Liberia, Monrovia, takes its name
from him.
Dined on:
Full name: Moore.
ID: pe334
Number of appearances: 4
Notes: Unknown. Could be the Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779–1853) who frequented Holland House in
the 1810s. He was in London during these dates, under the patronage of
pe330.
Notes: London Metropolitan Archives MS ACC/1795/A/01/03/001 shows that he leased land
in Kensington from George Charles Beauclerk (pe110) a contract on which Lord
Holland (pe029) was the vouchee.
Notes: His attendance at Holland House is confirmed in Henry Fulton, Dr. John
Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution (2014).
Author of A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and
Germany (1779), A View of Society and Manners in Italy (1781);
Zeluco: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign
and Domestic (1799); A View of the Causes and Progress of the French
Revolution (1795).
Dined on:
Full name: Mr William Morris.
ID: pe338
Sex: Male
Occupation: Tutor / Schoolmaster
Number of appearances: 48
Notes: Referred to as 'Reverend' in sources: William Morris was the tutor of pe029 who
also travelled with him on a tour through Belgium and France in 1790. He
officiated at the marriage of the Hollands on 6 July 1797.
Dined on:
Full name: Comte
de Murarieff.
ID: pe340
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 23
Notes: Unknown. The name is Russian. A Count of the same name served as Minister of
Foreign Affairs around 1900.
Dined on:
Full name: Captain Murray.
ID: pe030
Sex: Male
Number of appearances: 4
Notes: Unknown. Could be George Murray (1772–1846), Scottish soldier who was promoted
from captain to lieutenant-colonel in 1799 (ODNB Entry).
