The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-03 00:00:00

No. 11,927.

LORD BROUGHAM'S FAMILY*

Ansecount of the family of, Lord Brougham has
run the round of the London journals, copied from
the Leeds Intelligeneer, which contains nearly a-,
many errors as it contains lines.. Henry Lard
Brciughant is the eldest son of a gantletiorn of small
fortune, but ancient faMily (the Chancellor had, we
believe, a latent claim as heir-general to the barony
of Va'ux, and hence his 'creation by that title) in
Cumberland. His 'mother was the daughter of a
Scotch clergyman; in the mansion of whose widow,
on the. Castle-hill of Edinburgh, the father of Lord
Brougham- lodked when prosecuting his studies at
the• University there. Chambers, the laborious to-
pographical historian of the Modern Athens, says
that . Lord Broughem was burn' in St. Andrew's-
square, in that city ; though we have heard this
disputed.
The family of the late Mr. Brouglium consisted
of four- sense—Henry ; John, an extensive wine•
merchant in Edinburgh, who'died at Boulogne.about
eighteen. mouths ago; James, the Chancery bards.
ter, who sat with Baron :Abercromby, in the last
Parliament, for Tregony, and
.sits at present for
Caine; and William, who is, we believe, art Equity
draughtsman—be is -noticed as such in the Law.
List. Lord Brougham sat "rat for Caraelford, of
terwards , for - Vinchelsea, then for Knarishorough,
and. -lastly for Yorkshire. It is an instructive ex-
ample of The working of our admirable system of re-
presentation, that up to the 16th of last October
Henry Brougham, the greatest orator end statesman
that perhaps ever enlightened Parliament, was in-
' debteil for his seal to the patronage of a borough.
holding Peer.
In 1812, he contested -Liverpool 'with Mr. Can-
ning, and failed y in the same year he Has nominated
as we have elsewhere noticed, for the Inverkeithing
district of boroughs and failed there also. In
1818 he contested ,Westmoreland, where his family
have been settled for the last 60 or 70 years, with
the Lowther'; and again in 1826, but unsuccess-
fully in both instances. Lord Brougham was oil-I
ginally a Scotch barrister, and practised for some
time in the- Supreme Court there. it was while at
the Scotch bar that, in conjunction with the late Mr.
Francis Horner and Mr. Jeffrey he planned and esta-
blished the celebrated Edinburgh Review, of which he
was for many years a most able and constant sup-
porter. Lord BrouglieM married, in 1816, Mary
Anne, relict of John Spalding, E. q. of Holmr, in
Gallowayshire ; by whom we believe he has had
two children, a boy and a girl. Lady Breughain's
maiden name is Eden: she is a near kinswoinan of
the Auckland and 'Headley faMilies. At her mar-
riage with Mr. Spalding, in 1808, she was accounted
an extremely beautiful young woman, and she was
still possessed of great personal charms at the
period of her second union. Lady Brougham had
by her former marriage a- son, who inherits his
father's estate, and is an officer in the army,
and a daughter. Lady Brougham brought no
property to her husband, but her jointure of
1,5001. a year, and the house, Nn. 5, in Hill.
street, Berkley-square. Her Ladyship has. been
in a seer ydelitate kite of health ever since the
birth of her youngest child. , A great deal of miscon-
ception prevails on the subject of- Lord Brougham's
seat in NVestmorelattd. It is neither a hereditary
nor a family mansion. was the- property Of a
gentleman named Md, from whom we believe
the Lord Chancellor purchased it; and it was
originally, and is 'still knOwn by the country
people. by the' name of the Bird's Nest. Brougham
Haiti a title that it has borne for but a few years.
It stands'oli the road between Kendal and Pesuith,
aboet
.ft mile and a half from the latter; its only dis-
tinction is the fine view from the lawn in front of
the .house. The fine old ruin, Brougham Castle,....
which is often confounded with Lord Brougham's
seat, never was in hilr'possession, or , that of his
family; it belonged originally to the Veteriponts ;
and has descended, through the Cliffords and Tuf-
tons, to the Earl of Thanet, who is its present
master. 'Lord Brougham is, we believe, about fifty
yeats of age.—Speetalor. •