Belinda Colebrooke [née Edwards]

(1783 c.-1832)

LBT ID: BeColeb1832	B/BAP: 1783 DIED: 1832-03-15
SOURCES: The Scottish Jurist (1835) 354; The Irish Jurist (1856) 474-511; freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com
The wife or mistress of Col. George Colebrooke (1759-1809); after his death she entered into a bigamous relationship with Henry Butler (1793-1842) and John (or William) Taafe of Smarmore Castle, resulting in a lurid 1855 chancery case among the Butler heirs.
REFERENCES TO Belinda Colebrooke [née Edwards]: William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 47