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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 15: the Circuits.—Visits in England and Scotland.—August to October, 1838.—age, 27. (search)
yard-all surrounded by battlements — of Brougham Hall. Lord Brougham was born in 1779 and died in 1868. His mother, Eleanora, the only child of Rev. James Syme, and on her mother's side the niece of Robertson the historian, died Dec. 31, 1839, at the age (as given in Burke's Peerage) of eighty-nine. His Lordship's daughter, an only child, died Nov. 30, 1839, at the age of seventeen. He bought, in 1840, an estate near Cannes, France, and built upon it a house which he called Chateau Eleanor Louise, in memory of his daughter, to whom tributes on its walls were inscribed by himself and his friends. Campbell's Life of Brougham, ch. VI. and VIII. He died at this retreat, where he was accustomed to pass the winter season. In 1838, he was writing Sketches of Statesmen of the Time of George III., which were published, 1839-43. He invited Sumner to dine with him at 4 Grafton Street, London, in February, 1839. In the letter introducing him to Baron Alderson, he said: This will be del