[170] Richard Charles Francis Meade, third Earl of Clanwilliam (1795-1879), son of Richard Meade, second Earl of Clanwilliam, and Caroline, daughter of Joseph Count Thun. Lord Clanwilliam was Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1822, British Ambassador to Berlin (1823-1828) and a Grand Cross of Hanover.—T.
[171] Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond (1734 or 1735-1806), Ambassador to Paris (1765), Principal Secretary of State (1766), Master-general of the Ordnance (1782) and a knight of the Garter.—T.
[172] A famous political and allegorical satire of the reign of Henry III., attributed to Thomas Artus, Sire d'Embly. It was published without date of place or time, but was reprinted in the fourth volume of the Journal de Henri III. (1744).—T.
[173] Gillion Gaspard Alfred de Grimaud, Comte d'Orsay (1801-1852), long a leader of society in London and Paris, and noted for his intimacy with the Countess of Blessington. In 1827, he married Lady Harriet Gardiner, daughter of Lord Blessington by his first wife. She soon left him, and Lady Blessington, who was then a widow, took up her abode with him at Gore House. D'Orsay became bankrupt in 1849 and, to escape arrest, fled, on the 1st of April, to Paris, where Lady Blessington followed him in a fortnight. She died, suddenly, about a month after.—T.
[174] Anna Duchesse de Guiche (1803-1882), née de Grimaud d'Orsay.—T.
[175] Dorothea Christophorowna Countess, later Princess de Lieven (1785-1855), née von Blenkendorf. She was much sought after by the statesmen of her time: Castlereagh, Canning, Metternich were her friends; Lord Grey wrote to her every morning from his bed. She has been said to have had an intrigue with George IV. In Paris, where she settled after her husband's death, she became the Egeria of M. Guizot.—B.
[176] Éléonore Marquise d'Osmond, née Dillon, wife of René Eustache Marquis d'Osmond, who was French Ambassador to London from 1814 to 1819.—T.
[177] General Christopher Andreiëvitch Count, later Prince de Lieven (d. 1839), Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin (1810-1812), and Ambassador to London (1812-1834), Governor to the Tsarevitch, later Tsar Alexander II. (1834-1839).—T.
[178] Madame de Lieven migrated to Paris after the death of her husband in 1839.—T.
[179] Guizot made it a rule of his life to call daily on Madame de Lieven in Paris.—B.