LP
's husband
disowned her after catching her with Robert Adair
(a young surgeon who later achieved immortality as the hero of a popular ballad) in her bedroom late at night.
Pilkington, Laetitia. Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington. Editor Elias, A. C., University of Georgia Press.
1: 88; 2: 474-6
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