[47] Richard Westall (1765–1836), an R.A. since 1794 and painter of many historical pictures.

[48] John Bernard Sale (1779–1856), organist of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, and afterwards of the Chapel Royal.

[49] The Duchess of Gloucester. See p. 65.

[50] An attached attendant, to whose memory, after her death, the Queen erected a tablet in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. She was dresser to Princess Charlotte.

[51] Thomas Steward, teacher of writing and arithmetic.

[52] M. Grandineau, teacher of French.

[53] Mr. (afterwards Sir) George Hayter (1792–1871), a ceremonial painter of some merit. He was the official limner of two Royal heiresses—i.e. Princess Charlotte and Princess Victoria. He was designated, somewhat equivocally, Painter in Ordinary to the Queen.

[54] William Farren (1786–1861), an actor of distinction himself, and a member of a histrionic family of unusual merit.

[55] Mary, fourth daughter of George III., who married her cousin William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester. She died in 1867. The Queen looked upon her “as a sort of grandmother,” and described her as full of kindness, amiability, and unselfishness.

[56] See post, p. 104.