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For instance, after I had done my duty in the consultations, and seen my work fairly started in court, I contrived to take the train pretty early to Knebworth, in order to attend rehearsals as well as perform in the evening. Sir Edward's good-nature caused him much distress at my having to journey to and fro. What could he do?
On the day of my arrival one of the first topics discussed was "Ouida," who at that time was in England, and had been staying at Knebworth only the week before. "Ouida's" view of life was nothing if not romantic. Lytton, during the previous spring, had been spending some weeks in Florence.
Forty-shilling freeholders were of some importance in those days; hence these theatrical performances at Knebworth Park, for Sir Edward wanted their suffrages without bribery or corruption. Those who were the happy possessors of what they called the "frankise" were also distinguished enough, to be invited to the great performances at the candidate's beautiful estate.
Albans Verulam Hatfield House Lord Burleigh Cassiobury Knebworth Great Bed of Ware The river Cam Audley End Saffron Walden Newport Nell Gwynn Littlebury Winstanley Harwich Cambridge Trinity and St. John's Colleges Caius College Trinity Hall The Senate House University Library Clare College Great St. Mary's Church King's College Corpus Christi College St.
Novelist and statesman, third son of General Earle Bulwer of Heydon and Dalling, Norfolk, and of Elizabeth Lytton, heiress of Knebworth, Herts, was b. in London, and ed. privately and at Camb. He began to write when still a boy, and pub., in 1820, Ismael and other Poems.
Every day I was in court by nine o'clock, sometimes worked till five, then went by rail to Stevenage and drove to Knebworth, three miles. That was the routine. It was then time to put on my Elizabethan ruff and hose. After the play I once more donned my private costume, and supped luxuriously at a round table, where all our splendid company were assembled.
I was wanted in several consultations long before the courts met, so that it was idle to suppose I could stay the night at Knebworth. But what would I have given to be able to do so? Not my briefs! They were the business of my life, without which the Knebworth pleasures would not have been possible.
So far, however, as my own mood was concerned, this dissipation of romance by realities was a more or less gradual process. As an illustration of this fact I remember a weekend visit which I paid that summer to Robert, the second Lord Lytton, at Knebworth. The occasion was marked by the coappearance of things romantic and practical in more ways than one.
Ives before the Reform Bill passed, and in the first Reform Parliament for Lincoln, and he held this seat for a decade, receiving his baronetcy in 1835. For another decade he was out of the House of Commons, though he succeeded to the Knebworth estate in 1844.
Up to that time there had been much vagueness and doubt; no official voice had spoken the clear word for the United States; the British public did not know what to expect from their kinsmen overseas. Knebworth House, Knebworth, August 11, 1917. Dear Arthur: First of all, these three years have made me tired. I suppose there's no doubt about that, if there were any scientific way of measuring it.
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