Wedlock (64 page)

Mary Queen of Scots

Mason, William

Massingberd, Anne (
later
Maxwell)

Massingberd, Charles

Massingberd, William Burrell

Masson, Francis

Matra, James Mario (
born
Magra)

Matrimonial Causes Act (1857)

Maxwell, Anne
see
Massingberd, Anne

Maxwell, Revd William

Melbourne, Peniston Lamb, Baron (
later
Viscount), and Elizabeth, Lady

Menzies, James

Meredith, Mary (Countess of Ferrers)

Milbanke, Judith

Mingay, James

Mir Kasim, Nawab

Montagu, Edward

Montagu, Elizabeth

More, Hannah

Morgan, Mary: as Mary’s confidante and friend; appointed Mary’s maid; background and character; notices Stoney’s abuse of Mary ; and Mary’s taking laudanum; fears for Mary’s life; helps Mary escape; Stoney disparages; acts as Mary’s secretary; testifies for Mary in case against Stoney; accompanies Mary on flight from Stoney; on Farrer’s taking Mary’s case; in Gillray cartoon; and Stoney’s evictions of estate staff; and Mary’s intimidation fears; and Mary’s abduction; on Mary’s escape from Stoney; fever ; injured in coach accident; moves to Stourfield House; death

Morrow, Robert

Mountstuart, Charlotte, Lady (
née
Windsor)

Mountstuart, John, Baron (
later
4th Earl of Bute)

Newcastle upon Tyne: character; Stoney contests and wins Parliamentary seat for; Stoney loses Parliamentary seat (1784)

Newton, Catherine (Hannah’s mother)

Newton, Hannah
see
Stoney, Hannah

Newton, Matthew (Hannah’s cousin)

Newton, Samuel (Hannah’s uncle)

Newton, William (Hannah’s father)

Norfolk, Charles Howardh Duke of (
earlier
Earl of Surrey)

North, Frederick, Lord (
later
2nd Earl of Guilford )

Northumberland, Elizabeth, Duchess of (
née
Seymour)

Norton, Caroline

Ogilvy, Mrs (of Chelsea)

Ord, Eleanor

Osborn, Sarah

Ossory
see
Upper Ossory

Paine, James

Paine, Thomas

Palgrave, William

Papendiek, Charlotte

Paris: conditions; Stoney and Mary take abducted Anna to; Stoney and Mary leave

Parish, Elizabeth (
née
Planta): as Mary’s governess; and Mary’s botanical interests; warns Mary against marrying Strathmore; congratulates Mary on
The Siege of Jerusalem
; contracts fever; as governess to Mary’s children ; Mary confides passion for James Graham; Mary dismisses from employ; and Mary’s relations with Gray; Anna Maria placed in care of

Parkes, Ann

Parminter, Jane

Paterson, William: Mary meets and finances; botanical expeditions and collections in South Africa ; debts; recognition; serves in British fleet against Dutch; as lieutenant-governor of New South Wales; serves in army in India; death;
A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria

Peacock, Francis

Peacock, George

Peele, Joshua

Pennant, Thomas

Penneck, Richard

Pigg, William

Pitt, Thomas

Pitt, William, the Younger

Planta family

Planta Revd Andreas

Planta, (Ann) Eliza
see
Stephens, (Ann) Eliza

Planta, Elizabeth
see
Parish, Elizabeth

Planta, Frederica

Planta, Joseph

Polwhele, Richard

Portland, Margaret, Duchess of

Portugal: Strathmore visits

Prehn, Lieut.-Colonel Hendrik

Prevot, Mark

Price, Colonel Barrington

Price, Lady Maria Jane (
née
Bowes; Mary’s daughter): birth; upbringing; in mourning for father; character; and Stoney’s standing for Parliament ; relations with mother; removed from mother and sent to school; marriage prospects; in Downman portrait ; Stoney’s marriage plans for ; declines to meet mother after laudanum episode; in Elizabeth Parish’s care; resumes relations with mother; marriage and children; death

Price, Mary (
formerly
Bowes; George’s widow)

Quillacq, Pierre (‘Monsieur Dessein’)

Raikes, Richard

Reenen, Sebastiaan van

Resolution
(ship)

Reynett, Revd Henry

Reynett, Mary

Richardson, Christopher

Ridgeway, Thomas

Ridley, Matthew White

Ridley, Nicholas

Robinson, Major-General Andrew

Robinson, Colonel Robert (Stoney’s uncle)

Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth Marquis of

Roos, John Manners, Baron (
later
1st Duke of Rutland ): divorce from Anne

Rowe, Nicholas:
The Fair Penitent
;
Tamerlane

Royal Society

St Paul’s Walden Bury

Sandys, Dr Francis

Sanvitale, Costanza Scotti, Countess

Scarborough

Scott, Campbell

Scott, Dr John

Scott, John (‘Jack’)
see
Eldont Earl of

Scott, Sarah

Seaton Delaval, Northumberland

Selwyn, George

Seton, James

Shelburne, William PettyEarl of (
later
1st Marquis of Lansdowne)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley:
The School for Scandal

Sherlock, Thomas, Bishop of London

Shields, Matthew

Shuter, Charles

Simpson, Lady Anne (
née
Lyon)

Skeffington, Clotworthy

smallpox: inoculation for

Smith, Adam

Smith, Christopher

Smith, James

Smith, John (Stoney’s valet)

Solander, Daniel

South Africa
see
Cape Town and Cape

Sparrman, Anders

Spencer, Lady Diana (
later
Lady Beauclerk)

Stanley House, Chelsea

Stephens, (Ann) Eliza (
née
Planta): as governess to Mary’s children; as Mary’s confidante; Stoney uses as household spy; and Mary’s betrothal to Gray; visits fortune-teller with Mary; marriage to Henry Stephens; claims Mary has affair with Walker; birth of child by Stoney; young Mary in care of

Stephens, Captain George

Stephens, Revd Henry

Stephenson, Dorothy

Stephenson, Rowland

Stephenson, William and Mary (Dorothy’s parents)

Sterne, Laurence

Stillingfleet, Benjamin

Stoney, Andrew Robinson
see
Bowes, Andrew Robinson

Stoney, Elizabeth (
née
Johnston; ARS’s mother)

Stoney, George (ARS’s father)

Stoney, George (ARS’s great-grandfather)

Stoney, Hannah (
née
Newton): background; Stoney meets and courts; marriage to Stoney; in Bath; ill-health; unhappy marriage relations; childlessness ; bequest to Stoney in will; death in childbirth

Stoney, Mary (ARS’s sister)
see
Lawrenson, Mary

Stoney, Sarah (
née
Robinson; ARS’s grandmother)

Stoney, Thomas (ARS’s brother)

Stoney, Thomas (ARS’s grandfather)

Stoniad, The
(pamphlet)

Stourfield House, Hampshire

Stowell, William Scott, Baron

Strathmore, Charles Lyonh Earl of

Strathmore, James Lyonh Earl of

Strathmore, Jean, Countess of (
née
Nicholson; John’s mother)

Strathmore, John Bowes (
earlier
Lyon)h Earl of: death; engagement and marriage to Mary ; character; adopts Bowes name ; marriage relations ; background, birth and upbringing; attends Cambridge University; extravagance and debts; travels in Europe; affair with Countess Sanvitale; portrait and appearance ; social life in London; improves Glamis Castle and estate; children with Mary; elected Representative Peer; discourages Mary’s literary and botanical ambitions, ; tuberculosis; final letter to Mary; funeral; leaves no will ; disposal of estate; takes laudanum

Strathmore, John Bowesh Earl of (Mary’s son): birth; Mary dislikes ; in mourning for father; schooling; under guardianship of uncle; separated from mother; in Edinburgh ; in family portrait; at Cambridge University; refuses to see mother; attempts rescue of abducted mother; resumes relations with mother; supports mother in claim for custody of children ; as trustee for Mary’s younger children; coming-of-age; Mary transfers remaining estate to ; responsibilities as family head and landowner; relations with Sarah Hussey Tyrconnel; marriage, heir and death

Strathmore, John Lyonh Earl of

Strathmore, Mary, Countess of (
née
Milner)

Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of: behaviour reported in
Morning Post
; early relations with Stoney; relations with George Gray ; lifestyle and accomplishments; and Stoney’s duel with Bate; reckless behaviour; marries Stoney ; birth and background ; childhood and upbringing ; early learning; inheritance at father’s death; in London society as adolescent; interest in botany and gardening ; marriage prospects and suitors; kidnap attempt on; engagement and marriage to Strathmore ; honeymoon with Strathmore; marriage relations with Strathmore ; life at Glamis; pregnancies and children; relations with children; writings and literary ambitions; infatuation with James Graham ; suffers fits; ill health; pregnancies by Gray ; widowhood and financial independence and control; guardianship and custody of children ; attempts abortions ; dismisses Elizabeth Planta; as patron of William Paterson’s botanical expeditions ; Stoney pursues ; engagement to Gray ; visits fortune-teller ; learns of deception of Stoney’s duel; mistreated and abused by Stoney ; satirised in verse; debts; prenuptial deed securing estates in trust; supports Stoney’s election campaigns ; Stoney forces to sign over fortune; gives secret birth to illegitimate child (Mary Bowes); and Stoney’s infidelities and philandering ; writes “confessions” of misdeeds and indiscretions for Stoney ; short-sightedness ; friendship with Mary Stoney; meets Stoney’s family in Ireland; loses custody of and contact with Strathmore children ; and Paterson’s debts in Cape; in Downman family portraits; pregnancy and child by Stoney ; life insured by Stoney; Mary Morgan serves as maid; visit to France with abducted daughter Anna; confides in Mary Morgan and servants; returns to England; Stoney forces to take laudanum; Stoney threatens life or confinement in asylum ; and Stoney’s attempts to gain custody of Strathmore children; escape from Stoney; letter to

Stoney on flight; brings legal actions against Stoney; sues for divorce; financial dependence on others; suspends and resumes divorce case on Stoney’s plea for arbitration; wins divorce from Stoney; caricatured by Gillray; Stoney traduces; resumes social life ; friendship with James Farrer ; relations with Captain Henry Farrer; Engleheart portrait of; followed and intimidated by Stoney; abducted by Stoney ; Stoney removes from Streatlam Castle and flees; rescued by countrymen; injuries and sufferings from ordeal; resumes relations with Strathmore children; Stoney slanders in divorce actions ; divorce confirmed; and Stoney’s trial for conspiracy; claims and wins restoration of prenuptial deed; final divorce settlement; separated from younger children; claims and wins custody of younger children; makes over remaining estate to son John; care for children after freedom from Stoney ; lives in Purbrook Park; final portrait; pets and animals ; injured in coach accident; moves to Stourfield House; and Stoney’s further appeals against prenuptial ruling; health decline, death and burial in Westminster Abbey ; achievements;
The Siege of Jerusalem
(poetic drama)

Strathmore, Thomas Bowesh Earl of (Mary’s son): birth; in mourning for father; removed from mother ; in Downman portrait; under Thomas Lyon’s control; sees mother after taking laudanum; Mary’s visits at school; at Eton; resumes relations with mother; at Cambridge; military service; inherits St Paul’s Walden Bury from brother; marriages; inherits title

Strathmore, Thomas Lyonh Earl of

Streatlam Castle, County Durham

Stuart, Lady Louisa

Sunderland, Susannah

Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of
see
Norfolkh Duke of

Surtees, Bessie

Sutton, Mary (‘Polly’)

Swinburne, Henry

Temple, Sir William

Thackeray, William Makepeace: stays at Streatlam Castle;
The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Thelwall, John

Thompson, Richard

Thompson, Robert

Thornton, Gabriel

Thrale, Hester (
later
Piozzi)

Thunberg, Carl Peter

Thurlow, Edwardt Baron

Times, The
(earlier
Daily Universal Register
)

Tooke, John Horne

‘Torpedo, The’ (poem)

Trevelyan, Sir John

Tuthill, Henry

Tyrconnel, George Carpenterh Earl of

Tyrconnel, Sarah Hussey, Countess of (
née
Delaval)

Tyson, Revd Michael

Upper Ossory, Anne, Countess of (
formerly
Duchess of Grafton)

Upper Ossory, John FitzpatrickEarl of