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And just when you thought you had heard the last of the St John family at the court of Queen Anne - along...

Maria Gunning must have been a tough act for Barbara St. John to follow. The five famous Gunning sisters were born in...

When Sarah Whiting married Samuel Sparhawk on December 2, 1696 in Cambridge, Massachusetts the town was still a small...

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

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

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

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

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

It’s hardly surprising that two of Barbara Castlemaine’s three daughters went off the rails.  What is amusing is just...