Lord Colin Campbell

LCC died at her home at 67 Carlisle Mansions, Carlisle Place, in London, as a result of rheumatoid arthritis, which in turn may have resulted from syphilis contracted from her husband .

Lord Colin 's counter-claim was that LCC committed adultery with at least four men. In April 1883 he had confronted her about her relations with their physician, Dr Bird . After...

Visiting family friends at Tigh-an-Ruadh Lodge near Inveraray in Scotland (on the ancestral estate of the Campbells, Dukes of Argyll), Gertrude Elizabeth Blood attracted the attention of the youngest son, Lord Colin Campbell

After months of separation, Gertrude Elizabeth Blood and Lord Colin Campbell married at the Chapel Royal in the Savoy, London. As wife of a duke's younger son, she was known (as she still usually...

LCC 's marriage having failed rapidly, she sued her husband for a judicial separation, which was granted in March 1884.

Lord Colin hired a detective to follow his estranged wife, LCC , in Paris, where she was staying with her family, and keep a note of her meetings with Lord Blandford .

LCC and Lord Colin Campbell , already judicially separated, engaged in one of the longest and most publicized divorce cases of the nineteenth century.

Lord Colin CampbellLCC 's estranged husband, died at Bombay in India from pneumonia. He was age forty-two.

After the marriage ceremony the couple went away on a melancholy honeymoon at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, during whichLord Colin was constantly attended by a hospital nurse. After LCC 's...