Trial of the Duchess of Kingston /
edited by Lewis Melville.

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Main Author
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788
Related Names
Melville, Lewis, 1874-1932, editor.
Great Britain. Parliament.
Language(s)
English
Published
Edinburgh : W. Hodge & Co., 1927.
Subjects
Kingston, Evelyn Pierrepont, > Duke of, > 1711-1773.
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, > Countess of, > 1720-1788.
Bristol, Augustus John Hervey, > Earl of, > 1724-1779.
Bristol, Augustus John Hervey, > Earl of, > 1724-1779.
Kingston, Evelyn Pierrepont, > Duke of, > 1711-1773 > Relations with women.
Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, > Countess of, > 1720-1788 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Trials (Bigamy)
Relations with women.
Bigamy.
Bigamie > Grande-Bretagne > Jurisprudence.
Procès (Bigamie) > Grande-Bretagne.
Bigamy > Great Britain > Cases.
Trials (Bigamy) > Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Stamps > Ontario > Toronto.
Trials, litigation, etc.
Summary
"In 1776 Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess Dowager of Kingston, was tried by her peers in Westminster Hall on a charge of bigamy. It was alleged by the Crown that while her marriage with Augustus John Hervey, third Earl of Bristol, remained undissolved, she had bigamously married Evelyn Pierrepont, second Duke of Kingston. Tremendous public interest was aroused in the trial; there was a vast estate involved, and the notoriety of the accused was world-wide."
Note
"Appendix. The will of Elizabeth Chudleigh (taken from 'Authentic particulars of the life of the late Duchess of Kingston- ')": p. 311-328.
Trial for bigamy in April 1776 in the House of Lords.
Physical Description
x, [2], 328 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
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