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Frederick St John second Viscount Bolingbroke
Standard Name: Bolingbroke, Frederick St John,,, second Viscount
Used Form: Lord Bolingbroke
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10 March 1768: Lord Bolingbroke divorced his wife, the former...
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10 March 1768
Lord Bolingbroke
divorced his wife, the former Lady Diana Spencer
, for her adultery with Topham Beauclerk
, though his own infidelities were well known in society.
Rizzo, Betty. “Decorums”. The Secret Malady: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France, edited by Linda E. Merians, University Press of Kentucky, 1996, pp. 149-67.