Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Mary Clerke | AMC
's younger brother, Aubrey St John Clerke
, after receiving an education at boarding school and Trinity College
, became a Chancery
barrister in London. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 831 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Menella Bute Smedley | Menella's mother, Mary Smedley, was a great-grand-daughter of George Bellas
, a London lawyer and politician of somewhat mixed reputation who died leaving a substantial estate which led to huge family gatherings in Westmorland of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catherine Maria Grey | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anthony Trollope | His father, Thomas Anthony Trollope
, was a barrister in the Court of Chancery
until his career was jeopardized by his unacceptably rude behaviour. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Jane Vardill | 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... |
Education | Catherine Maria Grey | |
Cultural formation | Catherine Maria Grey | 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... |
Characters | Sarah Macnaughtan | 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... |
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