She and her siblings were illegitimate children. Brian Roberts
notes that for ideological rather than practical
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reasons, her parents had never married. He suggests that Thomas Longworth
's atheism was both militant and eccentric...
Family and Intimate relationships
Maria Theresa Longworth
Her father, Thomas Longworth
, was a silk manufacturer. Differences of opinion on religious questions led to frequent separations between father and daughter. She later said of him that he did not fear God or...