William Charles Yelverton fourth Viscount Avonmore

Standard Name: Avonmore, William Charles Yelverton,,, fourth Viscount

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Family and Intimate relationships Maria Theresa Longworth
She and Yelverton offered very different accounts of their relationship from 1855. While she fuelled rumours that they were engaged, he repeatedly denied any such claims. She visited him in Edinburgh during the summer of...
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Theresa Longworth
MTL met William Charles Yelverton, later fourth Viscount Avonmore , while crossing the Channel; they began corresponding shortly afterwards.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
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Family and Intimate relationships Maria Theresa Longworth
William Charles Yelverton and MTL reunited in Constantinople; she later claimed that he proposed marriage during this visit, while he counterclaimed that he had only attempted to seduce her.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
127
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Theresa Longworth
In a Scotch marriage ceremony, William Charles Yelverton (later Viscount Avonmore) read the Church of England marriage service aloud to MTL in Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
127
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Theresa Longworth
Less than a year after his Irish marriage to MTL , William Charles Yelverton repudiated it and married, with all proper forms, Emily Forbes , the widow of naturalist Edward Forbes.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Other Life Event Maria Theresa Longworth
The trial whereby MTL sought recognition as the legal wife of William Charles Yelverton , after he had denied the marriage and married again, took place in the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin.
Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
14
, 1971, pp. 275-91.
279-80
Other Life Event Maria Theresa Longworth
The House of Lords , the highest court of appeal, found in favour of William Charles Yelverton in declaring that his marriage to MTL was not legally valid.
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol.
14
, 1971, pp. 275-91.
283
Other Life Event Maria Theresa Longworth
In 1863 Yelverton took his case to the highest possible authority, with an appeal to the House of Lords against the Dublin verdict.
Textual Production Maria Theresa Longworth
MTL published as The Yelverton Correspondence what she claimed were the authentic letters exchanged between herself and William Charles Yelverton : she did, however, perform a good deal of editing.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
211
Textual Production Maria Theresa Longworth
Angered by the unauthorized publication of letters exchanged between Yelverton and herself, MTL decided to set the record straight.

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