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  “The reports are that the lady is mild, gentle, and amiable, full of devotion to and admiration for her betrothed—qualities which should blend very well with his vivacity.”

  “Yes, Aunt, but you omitted the lady’s most outstanding mark of eligibility.”

  “What is that?”

  “Her name is Georgiana—proof that they were destined for each other by a kind Providence.” Laughing with delight and relief, Georgiana took the arm of the waiting Granville. Leaving her baffled aunt, she led him into the garden. “And what do you say to so famous a romance?”

  “I wish them joy. But I believe we have a much surer basis for building a happy marriage.”

  And as Granville very scandalously kissed her for the second time that day, Georgiana thought so too.

  Afterword

  The major events of the book are all recorded history, and the characters (including most of the servants and animals) actually lived. To the extent that they have been recorded, I have used the characters’ own words.

  With one exception the events all occurred between 1820 and 1825, although not necessarily in the order presented here. I have taken the liberty of rearranging and condensing occurrences: The Cato Street conspiracy took place before the Amelioration of Slavery debate. The rainy afternoon that gave the world the game of badminton was in 1863.

  In 1835 on the death of his father from the “family enemy,” gout, Lord Worcester became the seventh Duke of Beaufort and was succeeded in time by the son born of his marriage to Emily Culling-Smith. Frederick Gough Calthorpe succeeded his brother as the fourth Baron Calthorpe. He and Lady Charlotte had four sons, three of whom succeeded to the title, and six daughters. George Agar-Ellis, later the first Baron Dover, and Lady Georgiana had four sons and three daughters.

  The Slavery Abolition Act to which William Wilberforce dedicated his life was passed in 1833, one month after his death, although he lived to see the successful second reading of the bill.

  True to his pledge, Granville Dudley Ryder was elected Member of Parliament for Tiverton in 1831 and for Hertfordshire in 1841. The Table of Kindred and Affinity did not prohibit marriages between first cousins. Granville and Georgiana made their home at Westbrook Hay, Hemel Hempstead, in West Hertfordshire. They had three sons and five daughters.

  Badminton is still the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort, and the Beaufort Hunt continues today, pledged to carry out only activities in accord with the laws which have changed substantially since the sixth duke’s day. The Earl of Harrowby, at the time of my research, lived at Sandon Hall, Staffordshire. He authored England at Worship.

  Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, carries on Charles Simeon’s heritage of an alive, Spirit-filled ministry to students and community. The church maintains an active vision for world missions.

  Time Line

  Where There Is Love

  UNITED STATES

  ENGLAND

  George Whitefield begins preaching

  1738

  John Wesley’s Aldergate experience

  French and Indian War

  1756

  1760

  George III crowned

  1760

  Lady Huntingdon opens chapel in Bath

  1766

  Stamp Act passed

  Boston Tea Party

  1773

  Rowland Hill ordained

  The Revolutionary War

  1776

  The American War

  1787

  Wilberforce begins antislavery campaign

  Constitution ratified

  1788

  George Washington elected President

  1789

  1799

  Church Missionary Society founded

  1805

  Lord Nelson wins Battle of Trafalgar

  1807

  Parliament bans slave trade

  War of 1812

  1812

  Charles Simeon begins Conversation Parties

  1815

  Waterloo

  Missouri Compromise

  1820

  George IV crowned

  John Quincy Adams elected President

  1825

  1830

  William IV crowned

  Temperance Union founded

  1835

  William Wilberforce dies

  Texas Independence

  1836

  Charles Simeon dies

  1837

  Queen Victoria crowned

  Susan B. Anthony Campaigns

  1848

  California Gold Rush

  1849

  1851

  Crystal Palace opens

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

  1852

  1854

  Florence Nightingale goes to Crimean War

  Abraham Lincoln elected President

  1860

  Emancipation Proclamation

  1863

  1865

  Hudson Taylor founds China Inland Mission

  Transcontinental Railroad completed

  1869

  1877

  D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey London revivals

  Thomas Edison invents light bulb

  1879

  1885

  Cambridge Seven join China Inland Mission

  Word List

  Ashen fagot—a bundle of ash sticks burned in the west of England instead of a Yule log

  Bosky—tipsy or drunk

  Bow Street Runners—London police before the Metropolitan Police

  Boxing Day—day after Christmas when boxes are given to servants and the poor

  Bumblebroth—situation that has been bungled

  Buttery Book—signed by gownsmen before dining in Hall

  Corinthian—fashionable man-about-town, sportsman

  Dipped—short of money

  Double first—first-class honors in two different subjects

  Drop-fences—the ground is lower on one side of the fence

  Fistful of flimsies—handful of paper money

  Fives—fist

  Haricot—lamb and vegetable stew

  Lent term—second academic term, from mid-January to Easter

  Kern-baby—doll fashioned from kerneled wheat stalks

  Knee smalls—tight-fitting breeches worn above stockings

  Master of foxhounds—guides the hounds and followers in the field

  Mill—prize fight or free-for-all fistfight

  Neats—cows

  Oak—heavy outer door for extra privacy on university rooms

  On dit—gossip

  Pamphylians—prostitutes

  Perch phaeton—a light four-wheeled carriage with the seat perched over the wheels

  Pietradura—a style of cabinetry made of ebony inlaid with polished semiprecious stones, developed in Florence by the Medicis

  Pockets to let—pockets empty of money

  Punting—gambling or betting; a play against the bank in faro

  Ratafia—a fruit juice liqueur

  Reverberator—Charles Simeon’s name for his hearing aid

  Rouleau—a roll or fold of something, such as a ribbon, used as trimming

  Roundaboutation—beating about the bush

  Sarcenet—soft, thin silk

  Sizar—student who acts as servant to other students in return for an allowance for his college expenses

  Smalls—short for examinations required for matriculation

  Sprig muslin—a plain-woven cotton fabric patterned all over with sprigs of flowers

  Tilbury—a light two-wheeled carriage with an elaborate spring suspension system

  Ton—(pronounced tone) style; the fashionable world; smart set

  Treat—to negotiate a settlement

  Waits—rustic serenaders who sing for small gratuities, carolers

  Whippers-in (whips)—master of the hunt’s assistants who whip the hounds

  Bibliography

  With my deep appreciation to those who have walked this ground before:
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br />   Agar-Ellis, George James Welbore, Baron Dover. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Vol. 1. London: 1840.

  Brown, Ford K. Fathers of the Victorians: The Age of William Wilberforce. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961.

  Brown, MA, Abner William. Recollections of the Conversation Parties of the Rev. Charles Simeon, M.A. London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1863.

  Dale, MA, T. F. The Eighth Duke of Beaufort and the Badminton Hunt. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd., 1901.

  Durant, Horatia. Henry, First Duke of Beaufort and His Duchess, Mary. Pontypool: Hughs & Son, 1973.

  —Charles Simeon, Preacher Extraordinary. Brancote Notts: Grove Books, 1979.

  —Raglan Castle. 2d ed. Great Britain: The Starling Press, Ltd., 1980.

  —The Somerset Sequence. London: Newman Neame, 1951.

  Edwards, Jonathan. “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Preached at Enfield, Connecticut, 1741.

  Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, new series, vol. 10 (3 Feb-29 May, 1824).

  Hole, Christiana, English Traditional Customs. London: S. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1975.

  Hopkins, Hugh Evan. Charles Simeon of Cambridge. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977.

  Letters Between the Hon. Elizabeth Ryder and Her Brothers. In the British Library, London. Privately printed, 1891.

  Lewis, Michael. The Navy of Britain: A Historical Portrait. London: 1948.

  Meade, D.D., William. A Faithful Servant: The Life and Labors of the Reverend Charles Simeon. Selected from the larger work of the Reverend William Carus. New York: Depository of Protestant Episcopal Society for Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1853.

  Pollock, John Charles. Wilberforce. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1977.

  Pugh, R. B., ed. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. London: University of London Institute of Historical Research, 1970.

  Strachey, Lytton and Roger Fulford, eds. The Greville Memoirs, 1814-1860. 8 vols. London: Macmilliam & Co., 1938.

  Trevelyan, G. M. Trinity College, An Historical Sketch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

  Walker, R.N., C. F. Young Gentlemen, the Story of Midshipmen. London: 1938.

  Wilberforce, R. I. and S. Life of William Wilberforce. Vol. 3. London: 1838.

  Wilberforce, Wiliam. An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies. 1823.

  Winstanley, D. A. Unreformed Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935.

  From King’s College Archives,

  Cambridge University, Cambridge:

  Acquaintance with God. Printed and sold by J. Downing in Bartholomew Close, 1726.

  Scholar of the period [i.e., by Wiliam Hill Dicker, 1803-1901]. King’s Old Court, 1822-1825. Typed transcript, formerly owned by M. R. James.

  Simeon, Charles. University Sermons on the Law and Gospel in Kings College Chapel. London: 1828.

  From The Harrowby Mss. Trust (The Ryder Papers),

  Sandon Hall, Staffordshire:

  Anand, V. S. and F. A. Ridley. The Cato Street Conspiracy. London: Medusa Press, 1977.

  Read the complete Where There is Love Series:

  Where Love Begins

  Catherine Perronet’s world is shaken when she learns Charles Wesley is engaged to marry another. After all, Catherine’s initials were on the list John Wesley gave to his brother listing acceptable matrimonial candidates.

  And that’s not all that’s wrong in Catherine’s world. As teacher at a Methodist Society school in London, she sees her brother beaten while preaching in the open air, her favorite pupil forced to leave school because of his family’s poverty, and a prisoner receive his death sentence in Newgate Prison. Catherine undertakes the joys and hardships of a circuit-ride preaching tour to Canterbury where a French invasion threatens then must face the terrors of the Great London Earthquake before coming to an understanding of the gentle calling God has for her.

  Where Love Illumines

  Mary Tudway is forced to choose between two worlds: the pleasurable life of her high society friends Sarah Child, heiress of Osterley Park, and the Bishop of Raphoe and his dashing Nephew, Roger; or the life of faith and service represented by the Countess of Huntingdon, her lovely daughter Selina and the witty but devout Rowland Hill.

  The story moves through the fashionable worlds of London and Bath as the death of one friend, the elopement of another and the startling unveiling of the Highwayman of Hampstead Heath play their parts in Mary’s finally making a choice of lasting value.

  Where Love Triumphs

  Brandley Hilliard, baronet’s son, brilliant classical scholar and cripple finds his carefully ordered world turned upside down by the delightful Elinor Silbert, daughter of the Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. And his conflicts increase when Elinor’s head is turned by the debonair Marquess of Widkham.

  Brandley’s search takes a destructive turn until Charles Simeon, Fellow of King’s College, takes the young gownsman under his wing and shows him a life beyond any his academic pursuits had taught him.

  Where Love Restores

  The disapproval of Granville Ryder’s father the Earl of Harrowby leaves Granville believing he cannot be accepted by his heavenly Father or accomplish anything of worth. Even his special friendship with Georgiana, daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, is almost destroyed by Granville’s conflicts.

  In a story that moves from Cambridge to the Midlands, to London to Wales, the counsel of Charles Simeon, the example of William Wilberforce and the terrors of the Cato Street Rebellion (more dangerous than the notorious Guy Fawkes Plot) lead Granville to reconciliation and love. This is the most entirely historical of the series. Even the animals are a matter of record.

  Where Love Shines

  “Half a league, half a league/ Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death/ Rode the six hundred.” Lieutenant Richard Greyston seeks heroic glory in the Charge of the Light Brigade. Jennifer Neville goes to Scutari as one of Florence Nightingale’s nurses dreaming of wiping the brows of the wounded. Richard winds up blinded and Jennifer spends her days carrying slops as mice fall from the walls of the hospital.

  Back in London Jennifer throws herself into charity work under the leadership of the Earl of Shaftesbury. She is delighted to reconnect with the convalescing Richard until she learns that his family’s wealth is built on the potteries where children are subjected to unimaginable brutality. Richard eventually joins Shaftesbury’s fight for social justice but must find a way out of the darkness to deal with his feelings for Jennifer.

  Where Love Calls

  Hilda Beauchamp believes that God guides the life of every believer—and that it is her job to guide God. Hilda’s plans meet many complications, but at least one of her prayers gets answered when the winds of spiritual revival sweep England, stirred by the great evangelistic campaigns of D. L. Moody and Ira Sankey. Word of Hudson Taylor’s mission to China fires imaginations and missionary fervor within the Cambridge community.

  But Hilda and the charming Kynaston Studd—whom Hilda has slated to marry her sister—find their plans sidelined. Kynaston was the leader, the first within his circle to catch the vision of going to China. But God seems to be calling his friends there instead of him and Hilda is horrified to find herself falling in love with the man she had intended for her sister.

  About The Author

  Donna Fletcher Crow brings a lifetime love of English literature and history as well as intensive research to the Where There is Love series—her historical series on the work of the Evangelical Anglicans. She is the author of 45 books, mostly novels of British history. The award-winning Glastonbury, The Novel of Christian England, an Arthurian epic covering 15 centuries of English history, is her best-known work. She also authors The Lord Danvers Mysteries. A Tincture of Murder is her latest in these Victorian true-crime novels. The Elizabeth and Richard Mysteries are her literary suspense series of which
A Jane Austen Encounter is the latest. An All-Consuming Fire is the fifth of Felicity and Antony’s adventures in the Monastery Murders. Donna and her husband of 50 years live in Boise, Idaho. They have 4 adult children and 14 grandchildren. She is an enthusiastic gardener.

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