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Elizabeth Armistead
Category: 18th century women’s history Published on: 31st May 2012

Elizabeth Armistead's client list reads like a who's who of 18th century society.  The scurrilous Town and Country Magazine...

Barbara St John - Lady Toppe
Category: 17th century women’s history Published on: 27th May 2012

When Lady Johanna St John wrote her will in 1703 she left personal bequests to her son Henry and daughters Johanna Chute and...

Emma Maria Elizabeth St John
Category: 18th century women’s history Published on: 24th May 2012

Emma Whitbread was probably most men’s idea of the perfect wife.  When she wed Henry Beauchamp, 13th Baron St John of...

Nellie O'Brien
Category: 18th century women’s history Published on: 22nd May 2012

By 1762 the marriage between Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke and his wife Diana, eldest daughter of Charles, 2nd...

St John Sisters
Category: 19th century women’s history Published on: 20th May 2012

When William Cobbett visited Lydiard Tregoze on his fact finding tour of 1826 he observed that the estate had once been a...

Anne Pleydell-Bouverie, 3rd Countess of Radnor
Category: 18th century women’s history Published on: 17th May 2012

It has to be said that the St John men didn't always make model husbands.  Those who married into the family were also...

Louisa, Lady Bagot
Category: 18th century women’s history Published on: 12th May 2012

Louisa St John was born c1744 just as building work on Lydiard House drew to a close.  The only surviving daughter of John,...

Lady Jane St John Mildmay
Category: 18th century women’s history Published on: 10th May 2012

When Jane married Sir Henry Paulet St John in 1786 he got more than he bargained for – a fortune and a new...