Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
Lord Bridgewater
was taken into the custody of Black Rod, the disciplinary officer of the royal household, to prevent his fighting a duel with Lord Middlesex
. His wife, Lady Bridgewater
, hurried to join...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
In May 1663 an orphan heiress aged about fifteen, Lady Elizabeth Cranfield
, ran away from her grandmother, who had been appointed her guardian. (Her father, the second Earl of Middlesex, had died when she...
Family and Intimate relationships
Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
Lionel Cranfield, third Earl of Middlesex
, challenged Lord Bridgewater (who had just been appointed guardian of his niece) to a duel in deliberately insulting language—Billingsgate dialect, Bridgewater called it, from the notoriously...