[427] This brilliant advocate, who died at the age of forty-seven, had been Peel’s Solicitor-General, and became Attorney-General in 1841. He appeared for Norton in his action for crim. con. against Melbourne, without any success, for the charge was triumphantly refuted.
[428] See ante, p. 149.
[429] The Hon. F. G. Byng, sometime Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber.
[430] He would have been 50 on January 22, 1838.
[431] She was an illegitimate daughter of Edward Walpole (second son of Sir Robert) by Mary Clement, a sempstress in Pall Mall. Their two other daughters became Countess of Albemarle and Countess of Dysart respectively.
[432] Married her cousin George, seventh Earl Waldegrave.
[433] Wife of George, second Duke of Grafton.
[434] Father of the Admiral, Sir Beauchamp Seymour, Lord Alcester.
[435] To William, second Earl, when Lord Cavendish.
[436] Holland House was built by Sir Walter Cope in 1607. His daughter and co-heiress married Henry Rich, first Earl of Holland.