Eleanor Eden

Eleanor Eden

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James Gillray caricatured the relationship between Eleanor and Pitt.]

Lady Eleanor Eden was the attractive daughter of Lord Auckland, best known for at one time being rumoured to be engaged to William Pitt the Younger.

Pitt and Eleanor met at her father's home at Beckenham, during Pitt's repeated visits there from his own home at nearby Holwood, near Bromley in Kent, but early in 1797 Pitt squashed spreading rumours that he intended to marry her by writing to Auckland:

:"My Dear Lord . . . It can hardly, I think, be necessary to say that the time I have passed among your family has led to my forming sentiments of very real attachment towards them all, and of much more than attachment to one whom I need not name . . . Nor should I do justice to my own feelings . . . if I did not own that every hour of my acquaintance with the person to whom you will easily conceive I refer . . . has convinced me that whoever may have the good fortune to be united to her is destined to more than his share of human happiness.

:"Whether I could have had any ground to hope that such might have been my lot, I have to reproach myself for ever having indulged the idea as far as I have done without asking myself carefully and early enough what were the difficulties in the way of it being realised . . . Having now at length reflected as fully and as calmly as I am able . . . I am compelled to say that I find the obstacles to it decisive and insurmountable . . . "

Auckland replied::"We had from an early period every reason to believe that the sentiments formed were most cordially mutual: and we saw with delight that they were ripening into an attachment which might lay the foundation of a system of most perfect happiness . . ."

He also tried to get Pitt to reveal what was the "insurmountable obstacle" he mentioned, but Pitt's only answer was that "further explanation or discussion can answer no good purpose". [cite news |work= The Daily Telegraph |date=2004-08-31 |accessdate=2008-08-17 |title= 'He was something between God and man' |author= Hague W |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/08/31/bowill31.xml]

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