Chancery

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...

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...

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

Its critique of the position of the poor, notably in the character of Jo the crossing sweep, is coupled with a sharp analysis of the Byzantine operations of the Courts of Chancery . The cast...

AMC 's younger brother, Aubrey St John Clerke , after receiving an education at boarding school and Trinity College , became a Chancery barrister in London.

Times were hard for small landowners, and much harder for Catholics. JB 's niece Mary Staton brought a suit against her in Chancery to force her to pay a debt.

It may have been after the couple had separated that SLP 's father died, and her husband brought a suit in Chancery to overthrow the will by which Sarah was to inherit independently of his...

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...

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