Welsh Journals

ready and waiting. Nothing could promise greater happiness for the four devoted sisters than to spend the rest of their lives together. They had not long been settled in than the post brought the news that Jos Wedgwood too was gone, an event that was not unexpected. All that morning the sisters could think and talk of nothing but Jos, all he had been to them and 'his incomparable kindness to them' all through their lives. Jessie was speaking for all of them when later that day she wrote: 'I have often thought that our connection with the Wedgwoods was one of the blessed circumstances of our lives, sent by Heaven to raise our moral natures, if we had the wisdom to profit by it. Some of us I am sure have. Whether I have or not, I am sure I have never thought of Jos's brotherly affection to every one of us without a warm glow of the heart his generous kindness to Edward Drewe and Caroline who owed him all the luxuries of their little establishment for many years his open house to all of us his ready purse when we wanted help. This morning at breakfast not one of our obligations to him was forgotten.' It was fifty-one years since that distant summer when Jos and Susannah Wedgwood drove through Pembrokeshire to stay with 'the most charm- ing family he had ever been introduced to.' ELISABETH INGLIS-JONES 1 Lady Elizabeth Thynne, daughter of 2 Marquis of Bath. M. 1816 Hon John Campbell who succeeded his father in 1821 and in 1827 was created Earl Cawdor. 2 Charles Mayne Young (1777-1856) actor, who succeeded John Kemble as the leading English tragedian. 3 Sir John Copley, afterwards Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863). 4 Brougham at that time member for Winchelsea had been assaulted in the lobby of the House by a lunatic. 5 Stephen Lushington (1782-1873) whig politician and reformer. 6 Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (1776-1846) lawyer and politician. 7 George Canning (1770-1827) Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 8 Thomas Denman, first Lord Denman (1779-1854) lawyer and politician. 9 John Hensleigh Allen was member for Pembroke Boroughs from 1818 to 1826. 10 A large oval opening in the ceiling put in below the high vaulted roof of old St. Stephen's chapel. Around it sat the ladies gazing down into the House. 11 Before Lady Cawdor's marriage she was Lady Caroline Howard, daughter of 5th Earl of Carlisle. 12 Jane, d. of Richard Huck Saunders M.D. married 10th Earl as his second wife. 13 In 1839 Emma Wedgwood married her first-cousin Charles Darwin. 14 Sir George Hayter (1792-1871) portrait & historical painter. 15 Sydney Smith was now Rector of Combe Florey & having inherited a fortune from a brother, had his own town house in Green Street. 16 Giulia Grisi (1811-1869) Italian opera Singer.