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52  LADY LUCY WHITMORE FIG 10 The sole example of Lady (Rachel) Labouchere’s engraved bookplate in Lady Lucy’s collection, in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, London, 1818, Dudmaston, Shropshire Photo: © National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This article would not have been possible without the unstinting assistance of staff at Dudmaston, in particular Alexa Buffey and Lucy Cooper. I am also grateful to Gareth Williams and June Ellis at Weston Park, the staff at Shropshire Archives and Staffordshire Record Office, and the Hamilton-Russell family for allowing access to their private residence at Dudmaston. 1. British Library, Add MS 37191, f. 345, William Wolryche Whitmore to Charles Babbage, 18 March 1840. 2. George Bellett, A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Quatt, Bridgnorth, 1840. In his sermon, George Bellett, the vicar of St Leonard’s Church, Bridgnorth, alludes to the trials of Job. He quotes from Job 35:10: ‘Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?’ 3. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/10 (P/833), George Bridgeman to Lucy Bridgeman, 19 February 1805. 4. James Thomson, The Seasons, London, 1794. The inscription in this particular volume (NT 3071939) reads, ‘G.A. Bridgeman gave this to L.E.G. Bridgeman August 28th 1808’. 5. Shropshire Archives, 190/332, William Wolryche Whitmore to Orlando Bridgeman, 13 November 1807. 6. Shropshire Archives, 190/333, William Wolryche Whitmore to Orlando Bridgeman, 26 January 1808. 7. Shropshire Archives, 190/372, Edward Clive to Orlando Bridgeman, 7 July 1808. 8. In a letter to her mother, Lucy writes, ‘We like Don Sebastian very much indeed, but I am sorry to think that as we advance in it, it will be less interesting’. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925c). 9. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925d), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 26 January 1810. 10. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925f ), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 28 January 1810. 11. Merlin Waterson, Dudmaston, Shropshire, London, 1999, pp. 19–20. ‘Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening’ appears in William Shenstone, The Works in Verse and Prose, London, 1764. 12. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925o), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 17 March 1810. 13. Harriet or Henrietta Pelham (1788–1813) was daughter of the Earl of Bradford’s brother John Bridgeman-Simpson and wife of the Hon. Charles AndersonPelham (1749–1823), later first Earl of Yarborough. 14. American Association of Neurological Surgeons website [Accessed 8 January 2018: http://www.aans.org/Patients/ Neurosurgical-Conditionsand-Treatments/TrigeminalNeuralgia]. 15. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/929Bk), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, c. 1820. 16. Dudmaston, DUD/12/04, William Wolryche Whitmore’s journal of his European tour, 1814–16. 17. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925j), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 2 February 1810. 18. John Cornforth, ‘Dudmaston, Shropshire – III’, Country Life, 22 March 1979, p. 820. 19. Dudmaston, DUD/08/74, ‘A List of the Whole of the Furniture and Effects in and Upon the Premises at Dudmaston’, 1858. The list of the Library’s contents forms part of a wider inventory of the house, in preparation for its lease to John Charles Lloyd following William Wolryche Whitmore’s death. 20. The six bookcases listed in the 1858 inventory were reduced to four in 1965, when they were removed by Sir George and Lady Rachel Labouchere and replaced by windows. 21. For comparison purposes, Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s fourth novel, Devereux, published in 1829, cost 31s 6d. 22. The vast majority of the books that remain in the Library at Dudmaston are the property of the Hamilton-Russell family. 23. The books were transferred to National Trust ownership in 1983. 24. This is one of the two bookcases listed as being in the Morning Room in the 1858 inventory. 25. The instrument is a double-action pedal harp manufactured by Sébastien Érard (1752–1831) and purchased on 20 March 1817. According to Lady Labouchere, ‘the instrument was put away at her death in a muslin bag in the attic and when brought down and restored about sixteen years ago [1968], it was found that it had been delivered by the makers to the Whitmore’s house in London in 1717 [sic], probably as a present from a young husband to his wife.’ Attingham Park Staff Archive, DU/CI/I-6, Lady Labouchere’s Guidebook Revisions, 1984. 26. James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, London, 1807 (NT 3071776). The ‘Recluses of Llangollen’, Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831) and Lady Eleanor Butler (1739–1829), visited Weston Park in July 1813. 27. Lucy met Felicia Hemans (and Sir Walter Scott) during a visit to Abbotsford in July 1829. Two poems, in Hemans hand, survive in the Dudmaston archive (DUD/08/82). 28. George Bayntun, Provenance: Particular, Personalised, Privately Printed And Presentation Copies, online edition, 2012 [Accessed 11 October 2017: http://www. georgebayntun.com/pdf/ pdf_13082013_105544.pdf]. This book has recently been acquired by the National Trust with funds donated by Penny Woodley. 29. Dudmaston, DUD/19/31, Receipt from Richard Child, Worcester, 21 July 1838. 30. One of the few novels still in private ownership to have been identified as belonging to Lady Lucy is Grace Kennedy, Dunallan, Edinburgh, 1825. 31. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/929A/b), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 29 August 1820. 32. Dudmaston, DUD/08/79, f. 61v, ‘Lucy Whitmore’s Commonplace Book’, 1820–23. Their meeting was further commemorated by an entry in Wilberforce’s hand in Lucy’s commonplace book followed by her poem, ‘After a Visit by W. Wilberforce’ (‘It was a flitting beam – but one so bright…’). 33. ‘Whitmore, William Wolryche (1787–1858)’, History of Parliament website [Accessed 9 November 2017: http://www. historyofparliamentonline.org/ volume/1820-1832/member/ whitmore-william-1787-1858]. 34. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, ‘Letter book of Lucy Wolryche Whitmore’, 1820–30. The letter book is clearly not a complete record of her incoming correspondence. Letters from her mother, for example, are not included. 35. A reference to Colossians 1:11: ‘strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness’. 36. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, p. 200, George GoughCalthorpe to Lucy Whitmore, November 1825. 37. A New Manual of Devotions, London, 1806 (NT 3071516). 38. Lucy Whitmore, Family Prayers for Every Day in the Week, Selected From Various Portions of the Holy Bible, With References. To Which Are added, a Few Prayers for Persons in Private; and Fourteen Original Hymns, London, 1824. 39. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, p. 175, Edward Bickersteth to Lucy Whitmore, February 1825. 40. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, p. 75, Edward Bickersteth to Lucy Whitmore, 26 March 1823. 41. Bodleian Library, MS Eng. c. 6397, f. 40, ‘Letter-book of Edward Bickersteth’, 1830–37. 42. The Select Magazine for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, vol. 3, Wellington, 1823, pp. 252–53. 43. Maggie Humphreys & Robert Evans, Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1997, p. 91; Arthur Sullivan (ed.), Church Hymns With Tunes, London, 1874, pp. 84–85. 44. The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, online edition [Accessed 8 February 2018: https://hymnology.hymnsam. co.uk/f/father,-again-injesu%E2%80%99s-name-wemeet].
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FIG 10 The sole example of Lady (Rachel) Labouchere’s engraved bookplate in Lady Lucy’s collection, in The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, London, 1818, Dudmaston, Shropshire Photo: © National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This article would not have been possible without the unstinting assistance of staff at Dudmaston, in particular Alexa Buffey and Lucy Cooper. I am also grateful to Gareth Williams and June Ellis at Weston Park, the staff at Shropshire Archives and Staffordshire Record Office, and the Hamilton-Russell family for allowing access to their private residence at Dudmaston. 1. British Library, Add MS 37191, f. 345, William Wolryche Whitmore to Charles Babbage, 18 March 1840. 2. George Bellett, A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of Quatt, Bridgnorth, 1840. In his sermon, George Bellett, the vicar of St Leonard’s Church, Bridgnorth, alludes to the trials of Job. He quotes from Job 35:10: ‘Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?’ 3. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/10 (P/833), George Bridgeman to Lucy Bridgeman, 19 February 1805. 4. James Thomson, The Seasons, London, 1794. The inscription in this particular volume (NT 3071939) reads, ‘G.A. Bridgeman gave this to L.E.G. Bridgeman August 28th 1808’. 5. Shropshire Archives, 190/332, William Wolryche Whitmore to Orlando Bridgeman, 13 November 1807.

6. Shropshire Archives, 190/333, William Wolryche Whitmore to Orlando Bridgeman, 26 January 1808. 7. Shropshire Archives, 190/372, Edward Clive to Orlando Bridgeman, 7 July 1808. 8. In a letter to her mother, Lucy writes, ‘We like Don Sebastian very much indeed, but I am sorry to think that as we advance in it, it will be less interesting’. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925c). 9. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925d), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 26 January 1810. 10. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925f ), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 28 January 1810. 11. Merlin Waterson, Dudmaston, Shropshire, London, 1999, pp. 19–20. ‘Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening’ appears in William Shenstone, The Works in Verse and Prose, London, 1764. 12. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925o), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 17 March 1810. 13. Harriet or Henrietta Pelham (1788–1813) was daughter of the Earl of Bradford’s brother John Bridgeman-Simpson and wife of the Hon. Charles AndersonPelham (1749–1823), later first Earl of Yarborough. 14. American Association of

Neurological Surgeons website [Accessed 8 January 2018: http://www.aans.org/Patients/ Neurosurgical-Conditionsand-Treatments/TrigeminalNeuralgia]. 15. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/929Bk), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, c. 1820. 16. Dudmaston, DUD/12/04, William Wolryche Whitmore’s journal of his European tour, 1814–16. 17. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/925j), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 2 February 1810. 18. John Cornforth, ‘Dudmaston, Shropshire – III’, Country Life, 22 March 1979, p. 820. 19. Dudmaston, DUD/08/74, ‘A List of the Whole of the Furniture and Effects in and Upon the Premises at Dudmaston’, 1858. The list of the Library’s contents forms part of a wider inventory of the house, in preparation for its lease to John Charles Lloyd following William Wolryche Whitmore’s death. 20. The six bookcases listed in the 1858 inventory were reduced to four in 1965, when they were removed by Sir George and Lady Rachel Labouchere and replaced by windows. 21. For comparison purposes, Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s fourth novel, Devereux, published in 1829, cost 31s 6d. 22. The vast majority of the books that remain in the Library at Dudmaston are the property of the Hamilton-Russell family. 23. The books were transferred to National Trust ownership in 1983. 24. This is one of the two bookcases listed as being in the Morning Room in the 1858 inventory. 25. The instrument is a double-action pedal harp manufactured by Sébastien Érard (1752–1831) and purchased on 20 March 1817. According to Lady Labouchere, ‘the instrument was put away at her death in a muslin bag in the attic and when brought down and restored about sixteen years ago [1968], it was found that it had been delivered by the makers to the Whitmore’s house in London in 1717 [sic], probably as a present from a young husband to his wife.’ Attingham Park Staff Archive, DU/CI/I-6, Lady Labouchere’s Guidebook Revisions, 1984. 26. James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, London, 1807 (NT 3071776). The ‘Recluses of Llangollen’, Sarah Ponsonby (1755–1831) and Lady Eleanor Butler (1739–1829), visited Weston Park in July 1813. 27. Lucy met Felicia Hemans (and Sir Walter Scott) during a visit to Abbotsford in July 1829. Two poems, in Hemans hand, survive in the Dudmaston archive (DUD/08/82). 28. George Bayntun, Provenance: Particular, Personalised, Privately Printed And Presentation Copies, online edition, 2012 [Accessed 11 October 2017: http://www. georgebayntun.com/pdf/ pdf_13082013_105544.pdf]. This book has recently been acquired by the National Trust with funds donated by Penny Woodley. 29. Dudmaston, DUD/19/31, Receipt from Richard Child, Worcester, 21 July 1838. 30. One of the few novels still in private ownership to have been identified as belonging to Lady Lucy is Grace Kennedy, Dunallan, Edinburgh, 1825. 31. Staffordshire Record Office, D1287/18/12 (P/929A/b), Lucy Whitmore to Lucy Byng, 29 August 1820. 32. Dudmaston, DUD/08/79, f. 61v, ‘Lucy Whitmore’s Commonplace Book’, 1820–23. Their meeting was further commemorated by an entry in Wilberforce’s hand in Lucy’s commonplace book followed by her poem, ‘After a Visit by W. Wilberforce’ (‘It was a flitting beam – but one so bright…’). 33. ‘Whitmore, William Wolryche (1787–1858)’, History of Parliament website [Accessed 9 November 2017: http://www. historyofparliamentonline.org/ volume/1820-1832/member/ whitmore-william-1787-1858]. 34. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, ‘Letter book of Lucy Wolryche

Whitmore’, 1820–30. The letter book is clearly not a complete record of her incoming correspondence. Letters from her mother, for example, are not included. 35. A reference to Colossians 1:11: ‘strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness’. 36. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, p. 200, George GoughCalthorpe to Lucy Whitmore, November 1825. 37. A New Manual of Devotions, London, 1806 (NT 3071516). 38. Lucy Whitmore, Family Prayers for Every Day in the Week, Selected From Various Portions of the Holy Bible, With References. To Which Are added, a Few Prayers for Persons in Private; and Fourteen Original Hymns, London, 1824. 39. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, p. 175, Edward Bickersteth to Lucy Whitmore, February 1825. 40. Dudmaston, DUD/08/81, p. 75, Edward Bickersteth to Lucy Whitmore, 26 March 1823. 41. Bodleian Library, MS Eng. c. 6397, f. 40, ‘Letter-book of Edward Bickersteth’, 1830–37. 42. The Select Magazine for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Persons, vol. 3, Wellington, 1823, pp. 252–53. 43. Maggie Humphreys & Robert Evans, Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1997, p. 91; Arthur Sullivan (ed.), Church Hymns With Tunes, London, 1874, pp. 84–85. 44. The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, online edition [Accessed 8 February 2018: https://hymnology.hymnsam. co.uk/f/father,-again-injesu%E2%80%99s-name-wemeet].

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