My Reminiscences (Volume 2) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1883. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... GOR party, 215; speeches on the Irish Church Bill, 300, 303, 305 ; letter to the Duchess of Sutherland on the effect of that Bill, 304; his high esteem for the Duchess, 317; writes the inscription for her monument, 401 ; fall of his Mi- nistry in 1874, ii. 84^. ; marriage of his eldest son, 126; visit to, at Hawarden, 171 ; the author's statuette of, 178; again in Down- ing Street, 344 Gordon, Lady Jane (Countess of Sutherland), story of her marriage to Queen Mary's Bothwell, i. 50 sqq. ; wedding presents from Queen Mary to, 52 ; her third marriage, to Alexander Ogilvie of Boyne, 54; had coalpits worked and salt made near the river Brora, ib. ; was the last Roman Catholic Countess of Sutherland, ib. Gordon, Sir Arthur, anecdote of, ii. 210 Gordon, Sir Robert (the 'historian of the Sutherland family'), his description of Dunrobin, i. 45; his description of his mother, Lady Jane Gordon (Countess of Sutherland), 50; his account of his mother's third marriage, 54; his portrait at Dunrobin, 63 Gbrtz. See Gravelotte Gower, Francis, inherited the wealth of the Duke of Bridgewater, i. 37 sq., 87; his account of the origin of the Bridgewater Gal- lery, 38; became Lord Francis Egerton, 88 ; created Earl of El- lesmere, ib.; translated Goethe's 'Faust,' and V. Hugo's 'Hemani,' ib.; visited Goethe, 89; pub- lished a volume of poems, ib.; his personal appearance, ib.; his GOW married life, 90; notice of Lady Ellesmere, 90 sq.; his death, 140 Gower, Granville (second son of first Marquis of Stafford), after- wards first Earl Granville, i. 74 Gower, Lady Charlotte (daughter of second Marquis of Stafford), i. 87, 91; Byron's description of her, 91 sq. ; married Lord Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, 92 Gower, Lady Constance. See West- minster, Duchess of Gower, Lady Elizabeth...