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| NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lincoln, Susan Hamilton, Countess of, d. 1889 DNB: Opdebeck [née Douglas-Hamilton], Lady Susan Harriet Catherine [other married name Susan Harriet Catherine Pelham-Clinton, countess of Lincoln] (1814-1889), figure of scandal LBT ID: SuHamil1889 VIAF ID: 28689524 LOC ID: n90624955 | B/BAP: 1814-06-09 DIED: 1889-11-28 |
| SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File | |
The daughter of Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, tenth duke of Hamilton; in 1832 she married
Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, afterwards duke of Newcastle. She abandoned him for
Horatio, Lord Walpole, who in turn abandoned her. There was a child and a notorious divorce
in 1850. | |
REFERENCES TO Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Hamilton, countess of Lincoln [née Douglas-Hamilton]: Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers, 19 April 1851 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 2 Lord Brougham to Samuel Rogers to Samuel Rogers, 5 March [1853] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1:
¶ 5 | |
