Edward Lear's Diaries

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There should be at least two Miss Hornbys: E. and F., one of which is blind. A Maria Hornby and a Georgiana Hornby are also mentioned.

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1825-1892.

English sculptor and poet. He was a founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Woolner, Amy. Thomas Woolner, R.A. Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1917.

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1813-1896.

Alfred Tennyson’s wife. Lear met them through Franklin Lushington, whose brother Thomas had married Tennyson’s sister, in 1851.

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d. 1857.

Lear met Fanny Drewitt in about 1823. She married George Coombe and had a daughter, Fanny Jane Dolly Coombe (this is the Fanny Coombe Lear usually refers to in the diaries) who married Henry Willett of Brighton, and a son, Percy Coombe.

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Police Magistrate, brother-in-law of Henry Bruce (SL, 133 and 298).

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The Clives were longstanding friends and patrons of Lear: Ann Sybella Clive was one of the sponsors of Lear’s Indian expedition and visited him at San Remo. He corresponded with her, sending limericks and caricatures for her family. Her husband, George Clive, was a barrister and politician, and Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1859-62. The family, beside a Miss Sybella Clive, includes Charley and Kathleen.

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1799-1869.

English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party. He was known before 1834 as Edward Stanley, and from 1834 to 1851 as Lord Stanley. Full Wikipedia article.

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Eleanor Lear‘s husband. He worked with the Bank of England. In 1847 the family moved to Leatherhead, Surrey.

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