by David Crane
as character in Haydon’s painting 138–9
considers Bonaparte his hero 33, 37, 71
influence of Coleridge on 35–6
on legitimacy of power 278
on Mary Lamb 14
visits Leigh Hunt in gaol 69
Heinrich 74
Herschel, William 26, 239
Hewitt, Mary 100
Hickman, Tom ‘the Gas-man’ 143–4, 148–9
Hill, Dr 236
Hill, Rowland, 1st Viscount 171
HMS Bellerophon (the Billy Ruffian) 73, 76–8, 89, 170, 238, 305
HMS Endymion 27
HMS Eridanus 73
HMS Gladiator 83
HMS Imperieuse 81
HMS Mansfield 50
HMS Myrmidon 73, 238
HMS Peruvian 260
HMS Ulysses 78
Hobhouse, Captain Benjamin 113
Hobhouse, John Cam 112–13, 218, 264, 315
Hodgson, Private 134, 141, 224
Holland, Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron 268
Holloway, John 285
Hone, William 15, 280
Hooper, William 225
Hotham, Sir Henry 20, 170
Hougoumont 109, 110, 123–7, 141, 164, 183, 186, 195, 196–7, 224, 225, 269, 298, 317
Howard, Hon. Major Frederick, son of 5th Earl of Carlisle 194–5, 197, 198, 229, 269
Hugo, Victor 291, 306, 318
Les Misérables 306
Hume, Dr John Robert 226–8, 253
Hundred Days 44, 130, 138, 277, 305
Hunt, John 67, 70, 280
Hutton, James 26, 166
Integrity 75, 101
international relations 277–9
Ireland 300
Isabella 74, 101
Isle of Scalpaigh 49, 51–6, 101, 317
Jackson 75
Jackson’s Oxford Journal 193
Jacobins 35, 36, 94, 102, 300
Jacquinot, Charles-Claude 222
Jason 74
Jena, battle of (1806) 23
Jones, William 88
Kabul 188
Kean, Edmund 11, 19, 70
Keats, John 69, 138, 258
Keble, John 119
Kelly, Captain 148
Keppel, Augustus Frederick, Lord Bury 61, 63
Keppel, Lady Elizabeth Southwell 62, 65, 71
Keppel, Frederick, Bishop of Exeter and Dean of Windsor 58
Keppel, George, 6th Earl of Albemarle 143
at Waterloo 110
character and description of 59–60, 63
commissioned into 14th Foot 61–2
expelled from Westminster School 60
family background 58–9, 63
a few hours before battle 62–3, 64, 91
in old age 317
spends sixteenth birthday at Grammont race meeting 63–4
survives Waterloo 225
Keppel, Admiral Sir Henry 61
Keppel, William, 4th Earl of Albemarle 59, 64
Kevan, Samuel 266
Kilmany 117, 118–19, 120, 121
Kincaid, Captain John 197
Knollys, Captain 148
Knox, John 50
La Belle Alliance 206
La Haye Sainte 48, 96, 109, 110, 145–9, 164, 179, 183–6, 195, 196–7, 222, 224, 298
L’Aigle 84
Lamb, Lady Caroline
affair with Byron 212, 213–14
death of 316
on feeling proud to be English 304
looks after her brother 269–70
in Paris 275
Glenarvon 19, 231–2, 236, 237, 239, 269, 316
Lamb, Charles
death of 315
description of 12
on Hazlitt 35
life at Hare Court 12–13
literary salon 15–19, 34, 130
looks after his sister Mary 14
turns down invitation to visit the Wordsworths 12–13
visits Samuel Rogers 176
Lamb, Mary
on Hazlitt 37
helps at her brother’s literary salons 17, 18
madness of 13–14
visits Leigh Hunt in gaol 69
Lamont, Father John 121
Lannoy, Count de 28
Law, Edward, Lord Chief Justice see Ellenborough, Edward Law, Lord Chief Justice
Lawrence, Sergeant William 182–3, 275
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 5, 143, 172
Leeke, Ensign 182
Lefebvre, Robert 258
Legros ‘L’Enfonceur’ (the Smasher) 126
Leicester, Charles 99
Leicester, John 99
Leicester, Oswald 100, 315
Leicester, William 99
Leigh, Medora 215
Leigh Hunt, James Henry 15
and Byron’s comment on Wordsworth 211
champions cause of Eliza Fenning 280
character and description of 66–7
as contributor to/editor of The Examiner 66–7, 71
on hounding of Eliza Fenning 286
spends time in prison 66, 68–70
teasing banter on Napoleon 262
on Wellington’s abilities 91
Lennox, Lady Georgiana 254, 255
Ligny 177, 178, 277
Liverpool 100, 101
Liverpool Mercury 8
Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of 10, 67, 233, 235, 259, 260–1, 280, 289
Lloyd, Charles ‘the banker’
character and description 130
dislikes being away from his wife 129–30
dislikes war 132
sends chatty letter to his wife 133
Lloyd, Charles ‘the poet’ 17, 130, 315
Lloyd, Corby 283
Lloyd, Sampson 130
London
Athenaeum Club (Piccadilly) 316
Carlton House 115
Coalhole Tavern (Strand) 11, 19
Fives Court (St Martin’s Lane) 143, 144, 296
Holland House 15, 69, 268
House of Correction (Cold Bath Fields) 68
Hoxton 20
Inner Temple Lane and Hare Court 11–13, 15–19, 34
King’s Bench prison 68, 79–81
Marshalsea 79, 80
Melbourne House (Whitehall) 231, 237, 316
Murray’s bookshop (Albemarle Street) 15
Newgate gaol 5, 19, 80, 105, 121, 151–2, 155–6, 159, 162, 189–90, 238, 280, 281–3, 287, 315
Royal Amphitheatre (South Bank) 19
Somerset House 169–70
Surrey gaol (Horsemonger Lane, Southwark) 68–9, 79
Theatre Royal (Covent Garden) 19
Vauxhall Gardens 258
York Street 37
London Missionary Society 122
London Stock Exchange 85
Louis XVIII 206
in exile 6, 25, 40
importance to process of peace 274–5
portrait at RA exhibition 172
returns to sentimental welcome 274
Lynedoch, Thomas Graham, 1st Baron 188, 293
Macdonald, Norman 96
Macdonell, Alexander 127
Macdonell, Colonel James 125–7
MacLennan, Murdoch 54–5
MacLeod, Captain Alexander of Berneray
buys Harris 49
landlord and innovator 50, 51
leaves legacy of hardship and failure 51
MacLeod, Eury ‘Aurora’ 101, 317
conceives and bears a dead child 53–5
vanishes on the way to sentencing in Edinburgh 55–6
works for Malcolm MacLeod 52, 53
MacLeod, Reverend John 51
Magna Carta 20, 191, 192–3, 314
mail-coaches 243–6, 268, 295–6
Maitland, Captain Frederick 83, 196, 204
at Aix Road 81
background 76–7
as Captain of the Bellerophon 77–8
death of 316
involved in French Revolutionary Wars 77
Napoleon sur
renders to 276, 305
Manchester 100
Maria 258
Melbourne, Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess 212, 215–17
Melbourne, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount 269
Mercer, Captain Cavalié 110–11, 164
Methodists, Methodism 99–100, 101–5
Metternich, Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel 4, 171, 278, 289, 316
Mildmay, Sir Henry St John 208–10, 236
Mill, James 69
Milton, John 34, 35, 37
Minerva 75
Mitchell, Captain 247, 248
Moles, Bill 62
Molyneux, ‘Blackie’ 141
Mont-Saint-Jean 62, 123, 145, 187–8, 195–6, 197, 248, 318
Montagu, Basil
champions cause of Eliza Fenning 280
description of 17–18
murder of his mother 19
Moore, Sir John 27
Moore, Thomas 155–6
Moore, Tom 69
More, Hannah 211
Morning Advertiser 282
Morning Chronicle 13, 173, 233, 265
Morning Post 145, 172, 191
Mountmorris, Lady 270
Murray, John 67, 129, 190, 231, 237, 269
Musgrave, Thomas (later Archbishop of York) 116
Namur 23
Napoleon Bonaparte
at Charleroi 30
battle plan 123, 145, 178
battle plans 196
Continental system 22
decides on pre-emptive action 21–2, 23
escape from Elba 4–5, 8, 60, 204, 302
exiled to Elba 278
news of his defeat reaches India 246
nicknamed the ‘Tiger’ 5
re-installed as Emperor in Paris 6
studies at Brienne 24
surrenders to British man o’ war at Rochefort 276, 305
on Wellington as a mere ‘sepoy general’ 91
Nasmyth, James 7–8, 299–300
Neale, Christopher 234, 235
Neate, Bill 143–4, 148–9
Newgate Calendar 284
Newstead Abbey 212
Ney, Marshal Michel 6, 165, 181, 196, 276
Nicholl, Colonel Thomas 187–8
Nile, Battle of 81
Nivelles 58, 93
Nogg, Major 265
Norfolk, Charles Howard, 11th Duke 20, 191–3
Northampton Transport (ship) 20
Notting, Captain 181
Observer 67
Oldenburg, Madame 60
Oldfield, William 159, 281, 285
Ompteda, Colonel Christian Friedrich Wilhelm von 184–5, 186
Ostend 58, 304
Oxford, Jane Elizabeth Harley, Lady 213
Page, Dr William 59, 60
Paine, Tom 25
Painter, Ned 145
Paley, William 289
Papelotte 164, 178, 197, 224
Paris 6, 134–5, 202, 204, 237, 273, 275
Parr, Dr Samuel
champions cause of Eliza Fenning 280
in favour of Napoleon, French sovereignty and peace 8–9
Parr, Samuel 280
Pearce, Henry ‘Game Chicken’ 64, 110, 141, 144
Pearson, Mary 105
Peel, Sir Robert 1st Baronet 104
Peel, Sir Robert 2nd Baronet 269, 307
Peer, Sarah 154, 158, 161
Peninsular War 23, 57, 76, 92, 93, 95, 107, 108, 112, 182, 268, 301
Percy, Major Henry 226, 259–61
Peterloo Massacre (1819) 280, 289, 304, 307–8
Picton, Sir Thomas 47, 108, 111, 145, 171, 175, 225
Piozzi, Hester Thrale 5, 238
Pitt the Younger, William 75, 170, 279
Place, Francis 235, 315
Plancenoit 183, 195
Platov, General Matvei 84, 171
Ponsonby, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Cavendish 221–4, 229, 239, 269–70, 271, 316
Ponsonby, Sir William 148, 195, 263–5, 268
Potter, Jonathan 102
Potts, William 103, 104
Powell, Dr 253
Priestley, Joseph 36, 132
Primrose, Archibald, Lord Dalmeny 208
Primrose, Hon Bouverie Francis 208
Primrose, Lady Harriet 208
Quakers see Society of Friends
Quarterly 67, 175
Quarterly Review 15
Quatre Bras 30, 32, 42, 46–8, 58, 93, 95, 111, 113, 125, 145, 177, 180, 187, 188, 264, 277, 298, 317
Quincey, Thomas De 76, 99
on mail-coaches 244–6, 295–6, 303
‘Sweet Fanny of the Bath road’ 310–12
Radnor, Earl of 207
Raglan, FitzRoy Somerset, Lord 188
Ramsgate 39, 62
Rattler (horse) 147
Ray, Martha 19, 286
Richmond, Charlotte, Duchess of, organises a Ball 29, 42–4, 109, 246, 271
Robert Quayle 75, 101
Robertson, Sir William 301
Robespierre, Maximilien de 25
Robinson, Henry Crabb
attends Lamb’s literary salons 15–19
description of 11
Hazlitt’s views on 34–5
memories of 314–15, 316
records the day’s events in his journal 237
takes tea with Anne Barbauld 176
on trial of Cochrane 87
visits Wordsworth in Marylebone 129
Rodel 50–1
Roger, Ellen 100
Rogers, Samuel 165, 176, 211
Romilly, Sir Samuel 6, 280
Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of 65
Divorce Bill 207
learns of Harriet’s adultery 208–9
meets and marries Harriet Bouverie 207–8
Rosebery, Harriet Bouverie, Lady 207–10, 219, 315
Rothschild family 206
Rothschild, Nathan 258–9, 260
Royal Academy Exhibition 170–5
Royal Navy 73–8, 306, 313
Sacken, Fabian Gottlieb von Osten 84
Salisbury, Lady Mary Amelia Cecil 19, 175
Sally 75
Saltoun, Alexander Fraser, Lord 126
Sammons, Corporal 133–4, 262
Scotland, and Scottish identity 299–300
Scott, John 5, 237, 262
Scott, Sir Walter 127, 266, 269, 298–9
Scottish Enlightenment 26
Scottish Royal Society 26
Selkirk, Dunbar Hamilton, 4th Earl of 24
Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of 25
Sellar, Patrick 173
Sellis, Joseph 234, 235
Seymour, Captain 226
Seymour, Sir George 200
Shaw, Jack
death and immortality at La Haye Sainte 147–9, 224
family background 141–2
joins the Army 142
as model for Haydon 134
as national hero 304, 308
as well-known boxer 142–4
Sheffield Iris 309, 312–13
Shelley, Lady Frances 243, 265, 300
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 69, 121, 258
Siborne, Captain William 304, 316
Siccar Point 26, 27, 166, 239
Sidmouth, Henry Addington, 1st Viscount 286, 289
Sieyès, Abbé Emmanuel Joseph 25
Silvester, Sir John ‘Black Jack’ 19, 156, 158–9, 162, 281, 283, 286
Slave Registration Bill 65
Smith, Rev. Sydney 15, 211
Society of Friends 130–3
Society for the Suppression of Vice 103, 115, 211
Soignes Forest 45, 48, 111
Somerset, Lord Edward 146, 195
Somerset, Lord John 204
Sophia, Princess 233
Southey, Robert 15, 35, 258, 268, 308
‘The Battle of Blenheim’ 179
Stafford, Marchioness of 191
Stanley, Sir E. 71
Stonestreet, Reverend George Griffin 43, 111
administers to the wounded 200, 206
becomes an army chaplain 201, 202, 204, 229
enjoys the good things in life 204–5
family background 201–2
given clerical honours 316
reports Blücher’s intended Rape of the Sabines in Paris 275
takes large quantity of gold sovereigns to Brussels 203
Strawger, Samuel 171, 176
Stuart, Charles Edward 51
Stuart, Daniel 237
Sunday School 99–100, 101–3, 104–6, 315
Sunday worship 115–22, 207, 211
Sutherland, George Granville Leveson-Gower, Duke of 173
Talavera 76
Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, Prince de Bénévant 277
Taplow (Buckinghamshire) 115, 121
Taylor, John 130
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, ‘In Memoriam’ 19
Ticknor, George 3, 173, 270–1
astonished at reaction of British to war 8
dines with John Murray 270–1
literary conversations 175, 315
on London 129
The Times 9, 69, 194, 260, 286, 288, 313
Tolstoy, Leo 236
Torrens, Major General Sir Henry 28
Tortoise Man 20
Treaty of Amiens (1802) 171, 188
Treaty of Paris (1815) 277
Trower, George 201, 204, 205–6
Trower, Sophia 205, 237
Turberville, Mr 108
Turner, Charlotte 153, 157, 161
Turner, J.M.W. 172
Turner, Orlibar 153–4
Turner, Robert Gregson 152, 153–4
Tyler, Major 108
Unicorn 75, 101
Uxbridge, Henry Paget, Lord
at Wellington’s funeral 313
on foreign ministers and hangers-on 164
hacks and tramples through French attackers 146–7
has his leg amputated 226–8
remains cheerful despite loss of leg 255
shrine built over his buried leg 269
used on recruiting poster 142
Vallance, Private Dixon 113
Vandeleur, Sir John 197, 222
Veitch, Dr James 302
Verner, Captain William 146, 318
Vestal 75
Victoria, Queen 317
Vienna 273
Vivian, Sir Hussey 171, 194–5, 197, 198
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet 138
Von Muffling, Baron Friedrich Karl Ferdinand 126
Walcott, Derek 303
Waldie, Charlotte 270
arrival in Belgium 39–40
at Antwerp 39
background 39
escapes from Brussels 199
response to Waterloo 299
sees the coffin of the Duke of Brunswick 41
Waldrof, Dr 257–8
Waterloo
air of unreality before 44
an unfamiliar place 48, 58
apparent success at Quatre Bras 46–8
aura and myths surrounding 296–309
battle lines 109–13
cautious optimism concerning success of 92–3
clearing the battlefield 254