Chancery

This was clearly a custody struggle. The family of the countess's first husband had had the children of that marriage made wards in Chancery . Anna was fourteen at this time; their stepfather had at...

CMG 's father, Benjamin Grindall , worked as an employee of the Bengal Civil Service and died when she was a young girl, leaving CMG a ward of Chancery . He made his will on...

His father, Thomas Anthony Trollope , was a barrister in the Court of Chancery until his career was jeopardized by his unacceptably rude behaviour.

AJV 's mother was born Agnes Birtwhistle in 1752 at Skipton in Yorkshire, into a family which was a local power there and over the Scottish border at Gatehouse of Fleet. Anna Jane...

Her mother, born Theodora Caldicott Ingram , came from a family of Methodists and was seven years older than her husband. Though Theodora's father's name was Ingram, the name Caldicott lingered in the family as...

Elizabeth Lincoln 's son and heir, the Earl of Lincoln , sued his mother in Chancery as guardian of his younger brothers.

As a ward of ChanceryCMG would have probably received a basic education in reading and writing under the supervision of the court.

CMG was born into the English professional class, into the defined world of those white people who worked and lived in British India. Her father died while she was still young, and she was...

Peter Ogilvie is, so far as he knows, the heir to his parents' fortune, and Jane Erskine is a ward of Chancery who will not come into her own money until the age of twenty-five...