Wedlock (63 page)

Bowes, Mary (
née
Gilbert; Mary’s mother): marriage and birth of daughter; and Mary’s upbringing; as trustee of Mary’s inheritance; in widowhood ; and Mary’s marriage to Strathmore; present at birth of Mary’s children; and Elizabeth Planta; Scott lures to London; and Mary’s marriage to Stoney; urges Mary to leave Stoney; death and will

Bowes, Mary Eleanor
see
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes

Bowes, Thomas (Mary’s uncle)

Bowes, Thomas (‘Hungry Bowes’; lawyer)

Bowes, Thomas (Mary’s son)
see
Strathmoreh Earl of

Bowes, Sir William

Bowes, William (Mary’s uncle)

Bowes, William Johnstone (Mary’s son by Stoney): birth and childhood ; inoculated against smallpox; and parents’ flight to France; and mother’s flight from Stoney; Stoney constrains during Mary’s legal action; with Stoney in custody; separated from mother; sees sister Mary; mother regains custody; inherits under Stoney’s will; naval career and death

Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Brandling, Charles

Brown, Revd James

Brown, Lancelot (‘Capability’)

Brown, Robert

Brudenell, Colonel Robert

Brunswick, Augusta, Duchess of

Buller, Francis (‘Judge Thumb’)

Bunbury, Lady Sarah

Burghley, William, Baron

Burns, Robert

Bute, Mary, Countess of (
née
Wortley Montagu)

Byron, Williamh Baron

Calais

Calvert, Sir Peter

Cambridge University: Strathmore attends (Pembroke College)

Cape Town and Cape (South Africa)

Carlile, Mrs (teacher)

Carlisle, Frederick Howardh Earl of

Carmarthen, Francis Osborne, Marquis of (
later
5th Duke of Leeds)

Carter, Elizabeth

Catherine of Aragon, Queen of Henry VIII

Chaloner, William

Chapman, Charles

Chapone, Hester

Charles II , King

Charlotte, Queen of George III

Chaworth, William

Chelsea
see
Stanley House

Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhopeh Earl of

children: legal custody

Church of England: and marriage dissolution

Church, Susanna

Clive, Robert, Baron

coal mining: in County Durham

Coke, Edward, Viscount

Coke, Lady Mary

Cole Pike Hill, County Durham

Cole, Revd William

Colman, George:
The Clandestine Marriage
(with David Garrick)

Colpitts, Thomas

condoms

contraception

Cook, Captain James

Court of Arches

Court of Common Pleas

Court of Delegates

Craven, Lady Elizabeth (
later
Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth)

Craven, William

Cruikshank, Isaac

Crundall, Robert

Curzon, Sophia

Dale, Mary and Henry

Dale, Richard

Dalkeith, Caroline, Countess of

Dance, Nathaniel

Davis, Ann

Davis, William: as Stoney’s financial agent ; witnesses Stoney-Mary wedding; and Mary’s pregnancy; prevents Stoney’s knife attack on Mary; and abduction of Anna Maria to France; and Stoney’s guardianship of Anna Maria ; deposits Stoney’s valuables in bank; turns against Stoney in court case

Defoe, Daniel

Delany, Mary

Delaval family

Delaval, Thomas

de Quincy, Thomas

Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of

‘Diabo-Lady, The’ (ballad )

Dickens, Charles;
Bleak House

divorce (and separation)

Dixon, Ann

Dixon, Isabella

Dock, Elizabeth

Donellan, Captain John

Douglas, Janet
see
Glamis, Janet Douglas, Lady

Downman, John

duelling

Duncan, King of Scots

Duncannon, Frederick Ponsonby, Viscount (
later
3rd Earl of Bessborough)

Duncannon, Harriet, Viscountess (
later
Countess of Bessborough;
née
Spencer)

East India Company

Eldon, John Scottt Earl of

Elizabeth, Queen of George VI (
née
Bowes Lyon)

Ellenborough, Edward Lawt Baron

Ellison, Revd John

Endeavour
(ship)

Engleheart,George

Engleheart, John Cox Dillman

Ernst, Prince of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Erskine, David

Erskine, Thomas (
later
1st Baron)

Este, Mrs (teacher)

Farington, Joseph

Farrer, Captain Henry: relations with Mary; and Stoney’s abduction of Mary; pursues Mary and Stoney across Pennines; and Mary’s escape from Stoney; and separated wife’s claim; divorce

Farrer, James: as Mary’s lawyer ; and restoration of Mary’s prenuptial deed; absence on business; enters Streatlam Castle ; offers reward for arrest of Stoney; shelters Mary in house; and Mary’s claims for guardianship of children; and Mary’s settlement on son John; and 11th Earl’s claims on title

Farrer, Mary (
née
Goldsmith)

Fenélon, François, Archbishop of Cambray

Fenton, Isabella

Ferrers, Laurence Shirleyh Earl of

Fielding, Henry

Fielding, Sir John

FitzThomas, Captain William

Foot, Jessé: treats Stoney after duel ; on Stoney’s appearance and character; on Stoney’s mistreatment of Hannah; on Strathmore’s character; on Mary’s figure; on Mary’s relations with Gray; on Mary’s reckless behaviour ; on Stoney’s pursuit of Mary ; Mary first meets treating Stoney ; and Stoney’s duel; on Stoney’s brutality towards Mary ; and Mary’s giving birth in Hammersmith house; on Mary’s written “confessions”; on Stoney’s entertaining; on Stoney’s watchfulness over Mary; attends Mrs Houghton in childbirth; on Mary’s deteriorating appearance ; on Stoney’s letters to Davis; and abduction of Anna; and Mary’s legal actions against Stoney; on Stoney’s philandering and illegitimate children; declines to testify for Mary in case against Stoney; on Stoney’s taking emetic; on Stoney’s decline into despondency; and Stoney’s seduction of Polly Sutton ; publishes account of Stoney after death; on Stoney’s treatment of children

Foote, Samuel;
The Nabob

Ford, Dr James

Forsyth, William

Foster, Edward

Foster, Lady Elizabeth

Fox, Lady Caroline

Fox, Charles James

France: cross-Channel journeys to; intermittent war with England; Stoney and Mary flee to with Anna

Frederick, General and Sarah (
née
Davis)

Garrett, Daniel

Garrick, David;
The Clandestine Marriage
(with George Colman)

Gay, John:
The Beggar’s Opera

George II , King

George III , King: and duelling; marriage; vetoes Mary’s match with Prince Ernst; accession; distaste for eldest son; and plant collecting; resists American independence; dismisses Fox-North government

George VI , King

Gibside Hall and estate, County Durham: as Bowes family seat; Column to Liberty; Mary’s childhood at; George Bowes improves; Mary and Strathmore at; garden and greenhouses; and Stoney’s election campaign; and pretended birth of Mary’s baby by Gray ; Stoney and Mary at, 151; Stoney despoils and neglects; Stoney entertains at; Paterson’s Cape seeds and plants at; Stoney withholds payment to staff; Mary’s cabinet of curiosities; staff support for Mary in case against Stoney ; rents collected and sent to Mary ; Stoney evicts and threatens staff ; degenerates after Stoney’s conviction; Mary granted repossession; celebrates transfer to 10th Earl on coming-of-age; 10th Earl restores

Gibson, William

Gilbert, Edward (Mary’s maternal grandfather)

Gilbert, Mrs (Newington school mistress)

Gillray, James

giraffe: Paterson acquires skeleton and skin

Glamis Castle, Scotland

Glamis, Janet Douglas, Lady

Glamis, John Lyonh Baron

Gordon, Lord George

Gordon, Captain Robert

Gowland, Mary

Grafton, Anne, Duchess of
see
Upper Ossory, Countess of

Graham, David

Graham, James

Graham, Margaret (
née
Mylne)

Graham, Roberth Laird of Fintry

Gray, George: relations with Mary ; background and service in India ; makes Mary pregnant ; Mary’s engagement to; visits Stoney after duel; and Mary’s marriage to Stoney; threatens Mary with breach of promise suit; Stoney pays compensation to

Gray, Thomas: tutors Strathmore at Cambridge; on Strathmore’s wedding to Mary; visits Glamis ; stays at Gibside; visits Strathmores in London; in Paris

Greive, George

Gretna Green, Scotland

Grose, Sir Nash

Grosley, Pierre Jean

Grosvenor, Mary, Lady (
née
Davies)

Grosvenor, Sir Thomas

Halifax, George Savile, Marquess of:
Advice to a Daughter

Hamilton, Mary

Hammersmith

Hardy, Thomas (novelist)

Hardy, Thomas (radical)

Hawkins, Sir Caesar

Held Woltemade
(Dutch ship)

Henry VIII , King

Hickey, William

High Court of Delegates
see
Court of Delegates

Hill, Joseph

Hoare, Henry

Hogarth, William:
Marriage A-la-Mode

Holland, William

horse racing

Houghton, Mrs (wet-nurse)

Howard, John

Hubbersty, Zachary

Hull, John

Hunter, John: Mary meets; natural history collection and museum ; and expeditions to Africa; rivalry with Foot; treats Mary ; satirical poem on Mary addressed to; Stoney entertains ; delivers Mary of baby; and Stoney’s philandering; Mary gives giraffe skin to; supports Mary in case against Stoney

Hunter, William

Infant Custody Act (1839)

Jackson, Elizabeth

Jackson, Emily

James V, King of Scots

James VI , King of Scots (James I of England)

Jessop, Lady Anna Maria (
née
Bowes; Mary’s daughter): birth; in mourning for father; removed from mother and sent to school; in Downman portrait; Stoney abducts and takes to France ; Stoney’s marriage plans for ; impressed and dazzled by Stoney; defies mother ; visits mother after laudanum episode; Stoney threatens to take abroad again; and Mary’s escape from Stoney; in care of Elizabeth Parish; and mother’s legal case against Stoney; elopement and marriage to Jessop; later relations with mother; accompanies mother to Stourfield House; death

Jessop, Anna Maria (daughter)

Jessop, Henry

Jessop, Susan

Johnson, Samuel

Johnston, James

Joplin, Thomas

Kenyon, Lloydt Baron

Kew Gardens: established; plant collection

Kinghorne, John Lyont Earl of

King’s Own Regiment (4th Foot)

Lacey, Thomas

Lambton, General John

Lambton, Lady Susan (
née
Lyon)

laudanum

Lawrenson, Mary (
née
Stoney; ARS’s sister): friendship with Mary; tyrannised by brother at Gibside; escapes from Stoney’s care and returns to Ireland; Stoney’s marriage plans for; sympathises in Mary’s case against Stoney

Ledstone (house), Yorkshire

Lee, Daniel

Lee, James

Lee, John

Lennox, Lady Sarah

Liddell, Henry

Liddell, Margaret

Liddell, Thomas

Lind, James

Linnaeus, Carl

Llewellin, Edward

London: conditions

London Consistory Court (Doctor’s Commons)

Long, Tilney

Loughborough, Alexandert Baron (
later
1st Earl of Rosslyn)

Lucas, Edward

Lyon family (Strathmores)

Lyon, James (Strathmore’s brother)

Lyon, Mary (Aunt Mary)

Lyon, Thomas (Strathmore’s brother): and Mary’s marriage to Strathmore; attends Cambridge University; close relations with brother Strathmore ; at Glamis; as M P; manages family affairs; commissions poem for birth of nephew John; marriage; hostility to Mary ; refuses money to Mary; and brother Strathmore’s death; custody and control of Mary’s children ; and Mary’s relations with Gray; plans for Strathmore daughters; brings action against Stoney’s abduction of Anna; meets Mary and Stoney after laudanum episode; denies support to Mary in case against Stoney; relaxes attitude to Mary; marriage settlement on Anna and Jessop; supports Mary’s claim for custody of younger children

Lyon, William: supports Mary in case against Stoney

Lyttelton, ThomasBaron

Macaulay, Catharine

Macbeth, King of Scots

Maddison, Colonel George

Magra, Captain Perkins

Mahon, Ann (Mary’s maidservant)

Mahon, Thomas

Malcolm II , King of Scots

Mann, Sir Horace

Mansfield, William Murrayt Earl of

Markham, Jane

Markham, Revd Samuel

marriage: in Georgian England ; and property rights; separation and divorce

Marriage Act (1753)

Married Women’s Property Act (1870)