William Murray first Earl of Mansfield

Standard Name: Mansfield, William Murray,,, first Earl of
Used Form: Lord Mansfield

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Cultural formation Anne Damer
Soon after her husband's death, obscene libels (bearing a political subtext) began to appear against AD . William Combe led the way in a couplet satire, The First of April; or, The Triumphs of Folly...
Publishing Elizabeth Hands
The advertisement for the book in print, like the pre-notification, was carried by Jopson's Coventry Mercury. The volume was dedicated to the dramatist Bertie Greatheed . It was issued in two forms: ordinary copies...
Residence Janet Schaw
She travelled with her brother Alexander , heading for his post on St Kitts; she may have intended to live with him there (having no male relations left at home since her father's death)...
Textual Production Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
The Universal Register (later The Times) printed a letter from Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , to Lord Mansfield , the Chief Justice, of 10 November, before her recent abduction by her estranged husband .
Parker, Derek. The Trampled Wife. Sutton, 2006.
94 and n1
Violence Mary Eleanor Bowes Countess of Strathmore
His various hired accomplices, some dressed as constables, brandished at her servants a warrant for their arrest (obtained by bribery), ordered her coachman off his coach at pistol-point while she was in a shop, and...

Timeline

26 March 1768: Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron,...

Building item

26 March 1768

Lord Baltimore (Frederick, the sixth baron , who was known for his promiscuity and was said to admire the Islamic system of harems) was acquitted (with two female accessories) of raping a Methodist or Independent

22 June 1772: Chief Justice Lord Mansfield ruled (in the...

National or international item

22 June 1772

Chief Justice Lord Mansfield ruled (in the case of James Somerset ) that English law did not allow a slave-owner the right to remove a slave by force from Britain.
Newman, Gerald, editor. Britain in the Hanoverian Age, 1714-1837: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
437
Boswell, James, 1740 - 1795. Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Editors Hill, George Birkbeck and Laurence Fitzroy Powell, Clarendon, 1934, 6 vols.
3: 87n3

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