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In 1630, her second husband, the Earl of Castlehaven, was arrested and charged with being an accomplice to her rape by a servant. He was also accused of sodomy , found guilty and sentenced to death. Anne Stanley's testimony against her husband was crucial in ensuring his conviction and set the precedent that a wife could give evidence against ...
The 9th Earl was predeceased by his elder son Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, in 1947; on the 9th Earl's death in 1961, the titles passed to his grandson, the 10th Earl, son of Lord Ashley. In 2004, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury , was murdered by his third wife, Jamila M'Barek , and her brother.
Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon (28 November 1661 – 31 March 1723), styled Viscount Cornbury between 1674 and 1709, was an English Army officer, politician and colonial administrator. He was propelled into the forefront of English politics when he and part of his army defected from the Catholic King James II to support the newly arrived ...
John Neville married Elizabeth Holland (c. 1388 – 1423), daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, around 1394. They had three sons and one daughter: [9] Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (4 April 1406 – 3 November 1484) [10] Margaret Neville (c. 1408 – between 5 May 1426 and 5 May 1434), who married Sir Thomas Lucy and left no ...
William A. V. Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900–1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890–1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter.
Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven (1593 – 14 May 1631; also spelled Mervin, Touchet), was an English nobleman who was convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently executed. A son of George Tuchet , 1st Earl of Castlehaven and 11th Baron Audley , by his wife, Lucy Mervyn, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Audley during his ...
After her first husband's early death without issue, Eleanor married secondly Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland. [1] He was killed at the First Battle of St Albans in 1455. [4] Eleanor and Henry had ten children: John Percy (b. 8 July 1418). Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland [1] (25 July 1421 – 29 March 1461, Battle of Towton). [5]
William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, PC, FRS (20 June 1731 – 15 July 1801), styled as Viscount Lewisham from 1732 to 1750, was a British statesman who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1772 to 1775, during the initial stages of the American Revolution. He is also the namesake of Dartmouth College.