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Belgian lawyer, banker and politician. Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium.
Mayor of Brussels (1840-1841).
Minister of Justice (1841-1842).

Belgian lithographer.

Belgian politician. Member of House of Representatives 1831-1848.

Belgian politician.

Van de Weyer served as Belgium’s Prime minister from July 1845 to March 1846. However, he lived for the majority of his life in London (17 Fitzroy Square, 50 Portland Place) and Windsor (New Lodge), and held the office of Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James’s under Queen Victoria, an ambassadorial role. Van de Weyer was close friends with Lord Palmerston. In addition to being a member of the Roxburghe Club, Van de Weyer was a founder member of the Philobiblon Society, the Vice President of the London Library, a Member of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and the Head of the Royal Library of Brussels.
Pierre Henri Laurent said of Van de Weyer: 'His manners, taste, and savoir-faire brought him into the vital center of the intellectual, diplomatic, and financial communities. His home became the meeting place of writers, artists, and scientists’.

Elizabeth Van de Weyer (née Bates) was from Massachusetts and the only daughter Joshua Bates (1788-1864) of Barings Bank. She comforted Queen Victoria following the death of Prince Albert.

American diplomat.

1st and last duchess of Inverness .

Ruth lived with her brother, George Charlewood Turner, at Marlborough school before he moved to Uganda to teach at Makerere College in 1939.

Ralph was the eldest Turner child. On 6 August 1928, he was appointed Rector of the Parish Church in Falmouth.

Sister of Ruth Mallory, wife of George Mallory.