[577] This was common Whig doctrine up to the Crimean War, when the unreadiness of the Military Authorities caused a reaction, which indirectly led to the fall of the Aberdeen Government.
[578] Wife of Warren Hastings.
[579] Melbourne House stood on the site of the Albany. See Vol. II., p. 96.
[580] In 1771 the Duke of Cumberland secretly married Anne, daughter of Lord Irnham (afterwards Earl of Carhampton) and widow of Andrew Horton. Her brother was Colonel Luttrell, the opponent of Wilkes. Not long afterwards, the Duke of Gloucester made public the fact of his marriage to the Dowager Countess Waldegrave. These two marriages led to the passing of the Royal Marriage Act, which governs (with certain exceptions) the marriages of all descendants of George II. See ante, p. 333, and Vol. II., p. 43.
[581] Lord Melbourne modified this opinion next day.
[582] Partly in consequence of his intrigues with the Prince of Wales against Pitt in the matter of the Regency Bill.
[583] Brownlow North, Bishop successively of Lichfield, Worcester, and Winchester.
[584] See note, post, p. 397.
[585] Mary, daughter of the first Viscount Galway, married, as his second wife, Edmund, seventh Earl of Cork. She died in 1840.
[586] Remarks on an Article for the “Edinburgh Review” on the Times of George III. and George IV., by General Sir Herbert Taylor, who had been Secretary successively to the Duke of York, George III., Queen Charlotte, and William IV.