The Remarkable Lushington Family. David Taylor

from the Lushington Papers, p. 10.

      4. Lillywhite's Scores and Biographies of Celebrated Cricketers, Volume 1 (1744–1826) (Kent & Co., 1862).

      5. Hester Lushington to Lord Melville, 3 May 1804. SHC7854/1/1/1a-b.

      6. Vernon Lushington to Richard Monkton Milnes (later Lord Houghton), Houghton Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge, 15/113.

      7. Nathaniel S. Weaton, A.M., A Journal of a Residence During Several Months in London; Including Excursions Through Various Parts of England; And A Short Tour in France and Scotland In the Years 1823 And 1824 (H. & F.J. Huntington, 1830).

      8. A detailed history of the Eshott estate and the Carr family is in the Newcastle Courant, 21 and 28 September 1877.

      9. The Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, 26 April 1785 carried an announcement of the sale of Eshott estate which was described as “A Capital and very Valuable Freehold Estate . . . of One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Acres”. The estate also contained “a very Excellent Current Colliery, working to great advantage.”

      10. In a letter to Catherine Winkworth dated 23 July 1862, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote “Mr V[ernon] L[ushington] came up, & introduced me to his aunt (his mother died in 1837). His Aunt, Miss Carr, well known to my Aunts, in other days, when Hollands & Carrs were near neighbours.” J.A.V. Chapple and Arthur Pollard (eds.) The Letters of Mrs Gaskell (Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 928. For more on Gaskell and the Carrs, see John Chapple, Elizabeth Gaskell. The Early Years (Manchester University Press, 1997).

      11. On 6 April 1812 Joanna Baillie wrote to (Sir) Walter Scott, “We have a most agreeable neighbour here, a great favourite of my sisters & mine, and being a Borderer, than English one, claiming (tho’ unknown) some little favour from you: Mr Carr, a learned Barrister, at the head of the excise office.” J.B. Slagle (ed.) The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999).

      12. On 9 February 1797, Robert Southey recorded a meeting “At the Chapter Coffee House to which I accompanied Carr and Barbauld.” Southey’s Common-Place Book: Fourth Series, ed. J.W. Warteer (Reeves and Turner, 1876), p. 39. In a letter to Mary Baker in 1811 Southey wrote, “Mrs Carr is a clever woman. She knows me but very little—I once dined at her house,—some fourteen or fifteen years ago, & have met once or twice since.” Ian Packer and Lynda Pratt (eds.) The Collected Letters of Robert Southey, Part Four: 1810–1815. Romantic Circles website.

      13. William Wordsworth to Mary Wordsworth, 30 May 1812, The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Alan G. Hill (ed.) The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Volume VII, The Later Years, Part IV 1840–1853 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988).

      14. I am most grateful to Christopher Wade, an authority on Hampstead’s history, for helping me locate the residences of the Carrs and their friends. His book The Streets of Hampstead, published by the Camden History Society (Second Edition, 1972), has proved immensely helpful.

      15. William Wordsworth to Mary Wordsworth, 20 May 1812, The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth.

      16. Morton Carr became Solicitor to the Excise and moved to Edinburgh. Joanna Baillie wrote to Sir Walter Scott, “Mr Carr’s eldst (sic) Son, Morton Carr, who has just left his Father’s pleasant house & family to be a lonely resident in the good Town of Edinr. as Solicitor for the Excise of Scotland . . . he is a young man of most amiable manner & character & one of my young favourites, I know you will be inclined to speak kindly to him & shew him countenance wherever you may meet him. He is with all his other good qualities a modest man, and will not presume upon it.” Joanna Baillie to (Sir) Walter Scott, date uncertain, The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, Vol. 1.

      17. “[Mrs Carr’s] youngest son William is appointed Attorney General for the Isle of Ceylon; an advantageous & honourable appointment for a young man, but it will take him far away and he was a great comfort to his Mother & Sisters at home.” Joanna Baillie to Anne Elliott, 13 November 1832. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, Vol. 1. In 1841, Baillie wrote to the wife of Sir Humphrey Davy that she had seen Anna Carr who had “become a very agreeable, intelligent companion, tho’ changes of time and the variety of scenes she has seen in Italy & in Ceylon have not been lost on her observing mind, and her ready talent for drawing whatever she see, country, plants, beast or body, provides here with good illustrations for her story.”

      18. Christine Colvin (ed.) Maria Edgeworth’s Letters from England 1813–14 (Oxford University Press, 1971).

      19. Joanna Baillie to Sir Walter Scott, 6th April 1812. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie, Vol. 1.

      20. Christina Colvin (ed.) Maria Edgeworth’ Letters from England 1813–14, (Oxford University Press 1971), p. xxii.

      21. Lucy Aikin recalled dining with the Carrs in May 1815 to meet Scott. See Lady Seymour (ed.) The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Wishaw and his Friends, 1813–40 (T.F. Unwin, 1906), p. 30.

      22. T.W. Carr was the executor of Rochemont Barbauld’s will.

      23. For more on Anna Barbauld and Joanna Baillie see In Her Hand. Letters of Romantic-Era British Women Writers in New Zealand Collections, Otago Students of Letters (Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2013).

      24. Anna Letitia Barbauld to John Aikin, October 1786. Quoted in William McCarthy, Anna Letitia Barbauld. Voice of the Enlightenment (The John Hopkins University Press, 2008).

      25. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Prologue to a Drama, Performed by a Family Party on the Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C[arr]’s Marriage.

      26. Another close friend of the Carrs (and ultimately the Lushingtons) living in Hampstead at this time was the Scottish lawyer Sir John Richardson (1780–1864). Richardson moved in literary society in London and Scotland and was a friend of Walter Scott. In 1821, he introduced the poet George Crabbe to Thomas Campbell at Joanna Baillie’s Hampstead home. Richardson was also an old friend of Thomas Carlyle. In 1830, on the recommendation of Scott, Richardson purchased the estate of Kirklands in Roxburghshire where he eventually retired and died. Richardson’s daughters became close friends and correspondents of Stephen’s son Vernon during his university years.

      27. Thomas Sadler (ed.) Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-law, F.S.A. (Macmillan and Co, London, 1869), Vol. I, p. 390.

      28. Maria Edgeworth to her Mother, 4 April, 1819. Maria Edgeworth, Letters From England.

      29. Several of Sarah Carr’s drawings, together with others by her sister Anna Margaret, are now in the Carr family collection of travel sketches, scrapbooks, and genealogical material, 1699–1981, Yale Centre for British Art.

      30. Maria Edgeworth to Sarah Carr, October 26, 1818. Scott, Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld selected from the Lushington Papers, p. 18.

      31. Ibid., No date.

      32. Stephen Lushington first met with Lady Byron on 22 February, 1816.

      33. Quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron’s Family. Annabella, Ada and Augusta, 1816–1824 (John Murray, 1975), p. 106.

      34. Ibid., p. 138.

      35. Lovelace Byron papers. Bodleian Library.

      36. Lady Byron had originally planned to take Mary Eden, a sister of Lord Auckland, who, as George Eden, had been her first rejected suitor before she met Byron. Annabella wrote to her mother of her plans for this tour, “I have pretty nearly formed my plans, I hope in the most eligible manner. At the end of the month I shall spend a few days with Lady Ormonde & Mrs Carr. Then I shall make a short visit to the G[eorge] Byron’s in Essex, where they have taken a house, and thence to Kirkby with a companion de voyage whom I hope you will think very desirable—not Miss Eden, but this is a long story, and I had rather talk about than write.” Quoted in Lord Byron’s Family, p. 152.

      37. Journal of Sarah Grace Carr. June 20, 1817. Lovelace Byron 446 Item 1. Bodleian Library.

      38. Ibid.

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