Recollections of Lady Georgiana Peel . r pedigree of the Russells,beginning in the year 1455. Not of this olden time, nor of the Russell genealogydo I write, but of the time of my parents and ofmyself; Russells of this century, of last century, andof the century before that. Of my grandfather, John, the sixth Duke ofBedford, much has been written, as he was well knownin the political life of Europe. My brother RoUo, ina short biography of him, writes, He was a parlia-mentary reformer, a member of the Society of Friendsof the People, and altogether a generous-minded andenlightened man ; he was
Recollections of Lady Georgiana Peel . r pedigree of the Russells,beginning in the year 1455. Not of this olden time, nor of the Russell genealogydo I write, but of the time of my parents and ofmyself; Russells of this century, of last century, andof the century before that. Of my grandfather, John, the sixth Duke ofBedford, much has been written, as he was well knownin the political life of Europe. My brother RoUo, ina short biography of him, writes, He was a parlia-mentary reformer, a member of the Society of Friendsof the People, and altogether a generous-minded andenlightened man ; he was keenly interested in educa-tion, a liberal patron of art and literature, a friend offarmers, and a student of agriculture, a host whothrough a great part of the year gathered, at WoburnAbbey, many people of social and political wife, the beautiful daughter of Lord Torrington,wrote to her sister Lady Weymouth, If there is acharacter on earth who deserves the reverence of man-kind, it is the man to whom I am united. Married. LADY JOHN RUSSELLIlRST WIFE OF THF. 6tH DUKE OF BEDFORD LADY GEORGIANA PEEL 5 in 1786, they lived almost entirely at Woburn Abbeytill her death fifteen years afterwards. My father wellremembered hearing of his terrible loss when a boy atschool. He and his brothers had been devoted totheir mother, to whom they owed a particularly happychildhood. The picture and miniatures of her showmy grandmother to have been very lovely, her eyes ofan azure blue, her hair and complexion of a dazzlingfairness. The letters to her husband, which have beenprivately printed, breathe a gentle and sweet per-sonality ; two of them I give, in which she writes ofmy father, then seven years old, her youngest boy : Oakley,February, 1799 (?). I have no letter from you this morning whichis a sad disappointment. I enclose you the list ofHunting days for this week. John desires I will tellyou that your calf is a he^ which makes him verymiserable as Nanny thinks you would have k
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