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THE DAYS OF THE GEORGES
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the Pavilions at the end of the Long Walk for some
time. Lady Mornington, the mother of the Marquis
Wellesley and the great Duke of Wellington, made
her home here for more than thirty years. Lord
Roberts’s mother died at the palace in 1882 ; Lord
Wolseley resides here at the present time ; and Lord
Dufferin, whose grandmother, Mrs. Sheridan, also
had rooms here for many years, retained a tender
affection for Hampton Court to the end of his life.
George II.’s grandson, the Prince of Orange, took
refuge here in 1795, when he was driven out of
Holland by French invaders, and remained at
Hampton Court with his family for seven years.
Another member of the royal family, Princess
Frederica of Hanover, spent several years in the
rooms formerly occupied by the Lady-housekeeper of
the palace. Dr. Johnson once applied in vain for
rooms, but in the last century Professor Faraday,
we are glad to think, was more generously treated,
being given the use of a house on the Green by
Queen Victoria.1
Countless are the distinguished men and women
who have paid occasional visits to Hampton Court
and left a record of their impressions. To quote
a single instance, Sir Walter Scott in his Diary
mentions one memorable day, in May 1828, when
he and his daughter took the following lions and
lionesses—Samuel Rogers, Tom Moore, and Words-
worth with his wife and daughter—to Hampton
Court, where they walked up and down and
listened to the band, to the infinite delight of
1 Law, “ Hampton Court,” iii. 309.
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the Pavilions at the end of the Long Walk for some
time. Lady Mornington, the mother of the Marquis
Wellesley and the great Duke of Wellington, made
her home here for more than thirty years. Lord
Roberts’s mother died at the palace in 1882 ; Lord
Wolseley resides here at the present time ; and Lord
Dufferin, whose grandmother, Mrs. Sheridan, also
had rooms here for many years, retained a tender
affection for Hampton Court to the end of his life.
George II.’s grandson, the Prince of Orange, took
refuge here in 1795, when he was driven out of
Holland by French invaders, and remained at
Hampton Court with his family for seven years.
Another member of the royal family, Princess
Frederica of Hanover, spent several years in the
rooms formerly occupied by the Lady-housekeeper of
the palace. Dr. Johnson once applied in vain for
rooms, but in the last century Professor Faraday,
we are glad to think, was more generously treated,
being given the use of a house on the Green by
Queen Victoria.1
Countless are the distinguished men and women
who have paid occasional visits to Hampton Court
and left a record of their impressions. To quote
a single instance, Sir Walter Scott in his Diary
mentions one memorable day, in May 1828, when
he and his daughter took the following lions and
lionesses—Samuel Rogers, Tom Moore, and Words-
worth with his wife and daughter—to Hampton
Court, where they walked up and down and
listened to the band, to the infinite delight of
1 Law, “ Hampton Court,” iii. 309.