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	Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston (1720 – August 26, 1788), sometimes called Countess of Bristol, was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh (d.
		This case was doubtless collusive, and after Elizabeth had sworn she was unmarried, the court in February 1769 pronounced her a spinster.
		The Duchess was a coarse and licentious woman, and was ridiculed as Kitty Crocodile by the comedian Samuel Foote in a play A Trip to Calais, which, however, he was not allowed to produce.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Chudleigh,_Duchess_of_Kingston (562 words)

	Elizabeth Chudleigh
		Chudleigh, Elizabeth, Countess of Bristol, 1720-1788, calling herself Duchess of Kingston, the only child of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh, lieutenant-governor of Chelsea Hospital, the younger brother of Sir George Chudleigh [q.v.] of Ashton, Devonshire, and Harriet, daughter of Mr.
		Chudleigh of Chalmington, Dorsetshire, was born in 1720.
		Miss Chudleigh, as she was still called, kept her marriage secret, and continued to hold office as a maid of honour in the court of the princess.
	www.southfarm.plus.com /Bigamy/Chudleigh.html (2312 words)

	Earls and dukes of Kingston-Upon-Hull - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		His son Henry Pierrepont (1606-1680), 2nd earl of Kingston and Ist marquess of Dorchester, was member of parliament for Nottinghamshire, and was called to the House of Lords as Baron Pierrepont in 1641.
		He was made a privy councillor and in 1715 was created duke of Kingston; afterwards serving as lord privy seal and lord president of the council.
		The duke, who attained the rank of general in the army, is described by Horace Walpole as "a very weak man, of the greatest beauty and finest person in England." He is chiefly famous for his connexion with Elizabeth Chudleigh, who claimed to be duchess of Kingston.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Earls_And_Dukes_Of_Kingston-Upon-Hull (592 words)

	Unlikely Maid of Honour Spectator, The - Find Articles
		Indeed she is featured there as the notorious 'Duchess of Kingston', who subsequently 'went through a form of marriage' with Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston, and was eventually tried for bigamy before the House of Lords.
		Elizabeth's trial for bigamy in the House of Lords is a tremendous set-piece, reminiscent of the scene in Kind Hearts and Coronets when the Duke of Chalfont is tried by his peers.
		Elizabeth was exempted (through 'benefit of peerage', as at least she was still a countess) from being branded on the thumb - to the apparent disappointment of a former lover, Lord Camden, who gallantly would have 'recommended a cold iron'.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200307/ai_n9243667 (761 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| The Scenery of Sherwood Forest: Thoresby (4)
		Elizabeth, however, as she told Caesar Hawkins, was unhappy at finding that she had to swear she was not married.
		The Duke of Kingston died at Bath on September 23, 1773, leaving to the Duchess by his will his real estate for life and the whole of his personality for ever, on condition that she remained a widow.
		Elizabeth Chudleigh (Countess of Bristol) died in 1788.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /rodgers1908/thoresby4.htm (1871 words)

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		He was twice married,.and had five daughters, among whom was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (q.v.), and one son, William, earl of Kingston (d.
		The duke, who attained the rank of general in the army, is described by Horace Walpole as " a very weak man, of the greatest beauty and finest person in England." He is chiefly famous for his connexion with Elizabeth Chudleigh, who claimed to be duchess of Kingston (q.v.).
		His descendant, the present Earl Manvers, is thus the representative of the dukes of Kingston.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=24014 (256 words)

	Memoirs of the Earl of Listowel: Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Kingston House, which was inherited (along with the rest of his estate) by his eldest son's eldest son, William, was the last of the great private houses, standing in their own grounds within five minutes of Hyde Park Corner, to disappear between the World Wars.
		Kingston House had been built as a country house, surrounded on three sides by fields, in the year 1770 for Elizabeth Chudleigh - the notorious Duchess of Kingston, by her husband the Duke.
		The most distinguished occupant after the Duchess at Kingston was the Marquis Wellesley, elder brother of the Duke of Wellington, who rented it from the Second Earl of Listowel from 1837 until he died there in 1842.
	www.redrice.com /listowel/CHAP1.html (6741 words)

	Random House \| Books \| Elizabeth by Claire Gervat
		In 1743 Elizabeth Chudleigh, an exceptional beauty, was appointed maid of honour to Augusta, Princess of Wales.
		Elizabeth continued to revel in court life, letting herself be known as “Miss Chudleigh.” Causing raised eyebrows at her frivolous behaviour, she became known for the best parties in London.
		All the same she was keen to marry the Duke of Kingston, and in February 1769 she won a case in the ecclesiastical courts, which ruled her a spinster.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780712614511 (344 words)

	Books \| Rise and fall of a party animal
		A less subtle source of her success, and certainly less of a secret, was Cornelys's friendship with the notorious Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston or Countess of Bristol, depending on where you stood in regard to her subsequent trial for bigamy.
		Costume-biography has tended to fall into two camps of late: celebrations of either the duchess or the whore, and it is against the lives of these two types of woman that the behaviour and values of the ruling classes are being reassessed.
		The Empress of Pleasure brings these opposites together in a whore who was worshipped as a duchess and a duchess who was regarded as a whore, thus suggesting that the 18th-century English elite would promote anything that was rare or new and discard whatever stank of scandal.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4824973-110738,00.html (741 words)

	August 26th
		THE DUCHESS OF As an example of the adventuress, amid several notabilities of a like kind, in the earlier half of the reign of George III, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, is prominently distinguished.
		The duchess being aware of the contents of the will, and of certain restrictions which had been imposed on her marrying again, had endeavoured, though ineffectually, to procure before the duke's death the execution of a more favourable deed.
		The duchess was left to the undisturbed enjoyment of her large income, which she dissipated in the indulgence of all sorts of luxury.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/aug/26.htm (3096 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720-1788), by her first marriage Countess of Bristol, by her second Duchess of Kingston.
		The Duchess of Kingston was attractive, intelligent and so enterprising that her actions almost always bordered on adventurism.
		Despite the generous gifts that she made to the Russian Empress, the Duchess did not manage to obtain a worthy position at court - Catherine II excused herself on the grounds that a foreigner could not become her lady-in-waiting.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/12/2006/hm12_1_22_0_6.html (237 words)

	KINGSTON, ELIZABETH, D... - Online Information article about KINGSTON, ELIZABETH, D...
		ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
		Miss Chudleigh did not lack admirers, among whom were See also:
		Pierrepont, 2nd duke of Kingston, and she was not only a very prominent figure in See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KINGSTON_ELIZABETH_DUCHESS_OF_1.html (789 words)

	Wilkie Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chudleigh was beautiful and uninhibited; she once attended a costume ball nearly naked, creating a sensation.
		The Duchess (or Countess of Bristol as her enemies claimed) was found guilty of bigamy and had to invoke the privilege of the peerage to avoid being branded.
		Hervey's granddaughter Elizabeth lived in a ménage à trois with Caroline Lamb's aunt Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and the Duke, by whom she had several children.
	pluto.scs.ryerson.ca /~monica/collins.htm (597 words)

	free download ebooks - Valorization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This did not, however, prevent her from becoming the mistress of the Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, and she was not only a very prominent figure in London society, but in 1765 in Berlin she was honored by the attentions of Frederick II of Prussia.
		Visiting Rome the Duchess was received with honor by Pope Clement XIV ; after which she hurried back to England to defend herself from a charge of polygamy, which had been preferred against her by Kingston's nephew, Evelyn Meadows (d.
		There is an account of the Duchess in John Heneage Jesse 's Memoirs of the Court of England 1688-1760, vol.
	en_arvid.carlsson.en.pdahp.org (2458 words)

	Bradford on Avon: The Hall
		The second son of the John Hall that married Dorothy Rogers, bore the same Christian name as his father, and succeeded, by the decease, it is presumed, of his elder brother Thomas, at the close of the sixteenth century to the representation of the family.
		He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Brune of Athelhampton, Co. Dorset, and was probably the builder of the large and beautiful mansion,-described, by Aubrey, as "the best built house for the quality of a gentleman in Wilts,"-which, since the days of Evelyn Pierrepont, has commonly been termed the "Duke's House" or "Kingston House,".
		And 'Elizabeth Chudleigh's, after all, hardly to be reckoned among the o'Worthies' of Bradford-on-Avon.
	www.freshford.com /the_hall_bradford1.htm (2707 words)

	Amazon.co.uk Books: Chudleigh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Chudleigh Country Holidays -- Wide range of graded holiday accomodation in Chudleigh and South, East & West Devon.
		The bigamous duchess: A romantiv biography of Elizabeth Chudleigh,Duchess of Kingston by Muriel Elwood (Unknown Binding - 1961)
		Chudleigh Hold by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer (Unknown Binding - 1954)
	www.amazon.co.uk /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=Chudleigh&page=1 (420 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The progeny of Elizabeth Chudleigh was largely repectable.
		But Elizabeth was to achieve fame and infamy, first as the duchess of Kingston, the darling of European society from Paris to Petrograd, next as the cynosure of scandalised outrage when it was discovered that she had forgotten to mention to the duke the small matter of another husband.
		Confronted by the duke's avaricious relatives in court, and reduced to paupery by the trial, she went on to secure her inheritance, against all odds, to carve out a career as a society hostess in Paris, and even to become the benefactor of her erstwhile persecutors.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article66560.ece (1577 words)

	Devon - History of Chudleigh - Chapter 8
		Thomas Rennell, of this branch, was born at Chudleigh in 1718, and educated at the Grammar School at Exeter.
		Nicholas married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Pomeroy, of Brindley in the parish of Harberton, knight, and had issue John, William sine prole, English, (married to Thomas Thorn of Mamhead;) Julian, (to Roger Harewell of Kingsteignton;) Joan, (to Peter Bear of the same;) Sabine.
		The geological structure of the parish of Chudleigh belongs to the great Devonian formation, consisting of slate covered occasionally with trappean ash, locally called dunstone, which occupy a position somewhere intermediate between the silurian strata of Wales and the old red sandstone of other countries.
	www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /england/Devon/towns/c/Chudleigh/History/Chapter8.html (5138 words)

	MSS - Catalogue of papers of 3rd Duke of Portland, University of Nottingham
		Pw F 2801 28.6.1774 Letter from Elizabeth Chudleigh, 'Duchess of Kingston', Paris, France, to W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; 28 June 1774 Discusses arrangements for the disposal of her late husband's stud and a particular horse which the duke wishes to purchase.
		2 ff Pw F 2802 11.7.1774 Letter from Elizabeth Chudleigh, 'Duchess of Kingston', Calais, France, to W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; 11 July 1774 Discusses her grief and ill-health worsened by the behaviour of 'Mr Medows and his Eldest son'; reports that she has returned to the continent for her health's sake.
		2 ff Pw F 2805 14.5.1775 Letter from Elizabeth Chudleigh, 'Duchess of Kingston', Calais, France,to W.H.C. Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland; 14 May 1775 Informs the duke that she is 'at Calais arm'd with inocence'; asks him 'to be one of my bail with his grace of Newcastle' as he was related to her husband.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /mss/online/online-mss-catalogues/cats/port_3rdduke6cat.html (6010 words)

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		Elizabeth Pierrepont--Her early taste for reading--She learns Latin, and, presently, Italian--Encouraged in her literary ambitions by her uncle, William Feilding, and Bishop Bumet--Submits to the Bishop a translation of "Encheiridion" of Epictetus--An attractve child--A "toast" at the Kit-Cat Club--Acts as hostess to her father.
		Lord Kingston was very much a man about town and a gallant, and was too greatly occupied with his affairs and his parliamentary duties, which took him often from home, to concern himself about her education.
		The second Duke of Kingston will, however, always be remembered for his marriage in 1769 with the beautiful and notorious Elizabeth Chudleigh, who was nine years his junior.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/5/9/10590/10590.txt (17412 words)

	Kensington - London
		The house recalls the notorious Duchess of Kingston, who occupied it for some time.
		The Duchess, who began life as Elizabeth Chudleigh, must have had strong personal attractions.
		Hervey began a connection with the Duke of Kingston, which ended in a form of marriage.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles05/london-kensington-2.shtml (2654 words)

	Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Having served as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1771 to 1775 he won some notoriety as an opponent of the Rockingham ministry and a defender of Admiral Keppel.
		In August 1744 he had been secretly married to Elizabeth Chudleigh (1720–1788), afterwards Duchess of Kingston, but this union was dissolved in 1769.
		Lord Bristol died leaving no legitimate issue, and having, as far as possible, alienated his property from the title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augustus_Hervey,_3rd_Earl_of_Bristol (417 words)

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		The Duchess of Gordon(49) made her first appearance there, who is very handsome; so the beauty of the former night, Lady Almeria Carpenter,(50) was the less regarded.
		She was lady-in-waiting to the Duchess of Gloucester and mistress to the Duke.
		The Duchess of Argyll, who married the second time the year following the death of the Duke of Hamilton, was generally known as the Duchess of Hamilton, and in 1776 was created Baroness Hamilton in her own right.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16661/16661.txt (20657 words)

	thePeerage.com - Eleanor Vesey Stoney and others
		She was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh and Henrietta.
		She married, secondly, Sir Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, son of William Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston and Rachel Hall, on 8 March 1769 in St.
		Elizabeth Chudleigh held the office of Maid of Honour in 1743, to the Princess of Wales.
	www.thepeerage.com /p15270.htm (695 words)

	Turtle Bunbury - Award-winning travel writer, historian and author based in Ireland
		He chiefly lived at Kingston House in London where he was much involved in politics although he occasionally returned to Convamore for the fishing and hunting seasons.
		The Charter was subsequently confirmed by Elizabeth I in 1571 and George I in 1722.
		Elizabeth - or Betty - was born on 24th July 1920, but tragically contracted MS shortly after her marriage in 1939 to Edward Butler-Henderson.
	www.turtlebunbury.com /history/history_family/hist_family_dacres.html (11319 words)

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		Miss Chudleigh was remembered by those who wished for the brilliant mistress, and scorned the wifelike quality of sedateness--and Miss L. is now seen with a very silly fellow or two, walking backwards and forwards unmolested--dwindled down from the new beauty to a very quotes pretty girl; and perhaps glad to come off so.
		Her admirers (such was his happiness!) were not jealous of him; but, pleased with that wit in him which they had not, were always for calling him to her.
		Cibber is the very picture of an old beau, with laced hat and flowing wig; half-a-dozen of his pleasantries were worth all that is heard from all the playwrights and actors of our day--on or off the stage: Garrick too, probably did not keep all his fine conceits within the theatre.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/11519/11519.txt (10615 words)

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		Born in 1658, Elizabeth Barry was the daughter of Royalist soldier, Robert Barry.
		During Barry's childhood, a sudden and unexpected loss of money left her family struggling to maintain their status as middle class, yet it was this unfortunate turn of events that led to Barry's success in the theater.
		She eventually won the patronage of the king and queen, as well as of such powerful personages as the Duchess of Devonshire.
	www.gwu.edu /~klarsen/actors.html (5594 words)

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