[537] Eldest son of the Duke of Sutherland, and nine years old. He succeeded his father as third Duke in 1861.
[538] Eldest son of Lord Conyngham, and thirteen years old. Succeeded as third Marquess in 1876, and died in 1882.
[539] Eldest son of Lord Uxbridge, seventeen years old. Died in 1880.
[540] This was certainly an error of judgment on the part of Lord Melbourne. The Queen’s appearance on horseback, in the uniform still to be seen in the London Museum at Kensington Palace, was extraordinarily fascinating, and added greatly to the interest of any Review at which she appeared.
[541] The Queen evidently did not grasp a name unfamiliar to her. The ratification of the Treaty of Amiens was sent over by Napoleon in charge of Colonel Lauriston, his A.D.C. When this officer left the house of M. Otto in London to deliver his credentials to Lord Hawkesbury, the scene occurred which the Queen here describes. The carriage was accompanied to Downing Street by a guard of honour of the Household Cavalry.
[542] Afterwards first Baron Lyons of Christchurch (1790–1858). At this time Minister Plenipotentiary at Athens. In 1853, war with Russia being imminent, he was appointed second in command of the fleet in the Mediterranean, and displayed boldness and initiative in the attack on the sea defences of Sebastopol. He became Commander-in-Chief in 1855, and, on the termination of the war, a Peer.
[543] The dukedom of Montagu, created in 1766, become extinct at the death of the first Duke in 1790.
[544] In later years Edward Geoffrey, fourteenth Earl of Derby, three times Prime Minister, was reported to have refused a dukedom, on the ground that he would not exchange his Earl’s coronet, which dated from the fifteenth century, for a set of new strawberry leaves.
[545] Lord Melbourne’s private secretary. He afterwards served Prince Albert in a similar capacity. See Vol. II. p. 37.
[546] He was for a time Attaché to the British Embassy in Paris, and died in 1847.