by Wendy Moore
Newton, Hannah see Stoney, Hannah
Newton, Matthew (Hannah’s cousin)
Newton, Samuel (Hannah’s uncle)
Newton, William (Hannah’s father)
Norfolk, Charles Howardh Duke of (earlier Earl of Surrey)
North, Frederick, Lord (later 2nd Earl of Guilford )
Northumberland, Elizabeth, Duchess of (née Seymour)
Norton, Caroline
Ogilvy, Mrs (of Chelsea)
Ord, Eleanor
Osborn, Sarah
Ossory see Upper Ossory
Paine, James
Paine, Thomas
Palgrave, William
Papendiek, Charlotte
Paris: conditions; Stoney and Mary take abducted Anna to; Stoney and Mary leave
Parish, Elizabeth (née Planta): as Mary’s governess; and Mary’s botanical interests; warns Mary against marrying Strathmore; congratulates Mary on The Siege of Jerusalem; contracts fever; as governess to Mary’s children ; Mary confides passion for James Graham; Mary dismisses from employ; and Mary’s relations with Gray; Anna Maria placed in care of
Parkes, Ann
Parminter, Jane
Paterson, William: Mary meets and finances; botanical expeditions and collections in South Africa ; debts; recognition; serves in British fleet against Dutch; as lieutenant-governor of New South Wales; serves in army in India; death; A Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffraria
Peacock, Francis
Peacock, George
Peele, Joshua
Pennant, Thomas
Penneck, Richard
Pigg, William
Pitt, Thomas
Pitt, William, the Younger
Planta family
Planta Revd Andreas
Planta, (Ann) Eliza see Stephens, (Ann) Eliza
Planta, Elizabeth see Parish, Elizabeth
Planta, Frederica
Planta, Joseph
Polwhele, Richard
Portland, Margaret, Duchess of
Portugal: Strathmore visits
Prehn, Lieut.-Colonel Hendrik
Prevot, Mark
Price, Colonel Barrington
Price, Lady Maria Jane (née Bowes; Mary’s daughter): birth; upbringing; in mourning for father; character; and Stoney’s standing for Parliament ; relations with mother; removed from mother and sent to school; marriage prospects; in Downman portrait ; Stoney’s marriage plans for ; declines to meet mother after laudanum episode; in Elizabeth Parish’s care; resumes relations with mother; marriage and children; death
Price, Mary (formerly Bowes; George’s widow)
Public Advertiser
Quillacq, Pierre (‘Monsieur Dessein’)
Raikes, Richard
Rambler’s Magazine
Reenen, Sebastiaan van
Resolution (ship)
Reynett, Revd Henry
Reynett, Mary
Richardson, Christopher
Ridgeway, Thomas
Ridley, Matthew White
Ridley, Nicholas
Robinson, Major-General Andrew
Robinson, Colonel Robert (Stoney’s uncle)
Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth Marquis of
Roos, John Manners, Baron (later 1st Duke of Rutland ): divorce from Anne
Rover’s Magazine, The
Rowe, Nicholas: The Fair Penitent ; Tamerlane
Royal Society
St Paul’s Walden Bury
Sandys, Dr Francis
Sanvitale, Costanza Scotti, Countess
Scarborough
Scott, Campbell
Scott, Dr John
Scott, John (‘Jack’) see Eldont Earl of
Scott, Sarah
Seaton Delaval, Northumberland
Selwyn, George
Seton, James
Shelburne, William PettyEarl of (later 1st Marquis of Lansdowne)
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The School for Scandal
Sherlock, Thomas, Bishop of London
Shields, Matthew
Shuter, Charles
Simpson, Lady Anne (née Lyon)
Skeffington, Clotworthy
smallpox: inoculation for
Smith, Adam
Smith, Christopher
Smith, James
Smith, John (Stoney’s valet)
Solander, Daniel
South Africa see Cape Town and Cape
Sparrman, Anders
Spencer, Lady Diana (later Lady Beauclerk)
Stanley House, Chelsea
Stephens, (Ann) Eliza (née Planta): as governess to Mary’s children; as Mary’s confidante; Stoney uses as household spy; and Mary’s betrothal to Gray; visits fortune-teller with Mary; marriage to Henry Stephens; claims Mary has affair with Walker; birth of child by Stoney; young Mary in care of
Stephens, Captain George
Stephens, Revd Henry
Stephenson, Dorothy
Stephenson, Rowland
Stephenson, William and Mary (Dorothy’s parents)
Sterne, Laurence
Stillingfleet, Benjamin
Stoney, Andrew Robinson see Bowes, Andrew Robinson
Stoney, Elizabeth (née Johnston; ARS’s mother)
Stoney, George (ARS’s father)
Stoney, George (ARS’s great-grandfather)
Stoney, Hannah (née Newton): background; Stoney meets and courts; marriage to Stoney; in Bath; ill-health; unhappy marriage relations; childlessness ; bequest to Stoney in will; death in childbirth
Stoney, Mary (ARS’s sister) see Lawrenson, Mary
Stoney, Sarah (née Robinson; ARS’s grandmother)
Stoney, Thomas (ARS’s brother)
Stoney, Thomas (ARS’s grandfather)
Stoniad, The (pamphlet)
Stourfield House, Hampshire
Stowell, William Scott, Baron
Strathmore, Charles Lyonh Earl of
Strathmore, James Lyonh Earl of
Strathmore, Jean, Countess of (née Nicholson; John’s mother)
Strathmore, John Bowes (earlier Lyon)h Earl of: death; engagement and marriage to Mary ; character; adopts Bowes name ; marriage relations ; background, birth and upbringing; attends Cambridge University; extravagance and debts; travels in Europe; affair with Countess Sanvitale; portrait and appearance ; social life in London; improves Glamis Castle and estate; children with Mary; elected Representative Peer; discourages Mary’s literary and botanical ambitions, ; tuberculosis; final letter to Mary; funeral; leaves no will ; disposal of estate; takes laudanum
Strathmore, John Bowesh Earl of (Mary’s son): birth; Mary dislikes ; in mourning for father; schooling; under guardianship of uncle; separated from mother; in Edinburgh ; in family portrait; at Cambridge University; refuses to see mother; attempts rescue of abducted mother; resumes relations with mother; supports mother in claim for custody of children ; as trustee for Mary’s younger children; coming-of-age; Mary transfers remaining estate to ; responsibilities as family head and landowner; relations with Sarah Hussey Tyrconnel; marriage, heir and death
Strathmore, John Lyonh Earl of
Strathmore, Mary, Countess of (née Milner)
Strathmore, Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of: behaviour reported in Morning Post; early relations with Stoney; relations with George Gray ; lifestyle and accomplishments; and Stoney’s duel with Bate; reckless behaviour; marries Stoney ; birth and background ; childhood and upbringing ; early learning; inheritance at father’s death; in London society as adolescent; interest in botany and gardening ; marriage prospects and suitors; kidnap attempt on; engagement and marriage to Strathmore ; honeymoon with Strathmore; marriage relations with Strathmore ; life at Glamis; pregnancies and children; relations with children; writings and literary ambitions; infatuation with James Graham ; suffers fits; ill health; pregnancies by Gray ; widowhood and financial independence and control; guardianship and custody of children ; attempts abortions ; dismisses Elizabeth Plan
ta; as patron of William Paterson’s botanical expeditions ; Stoney pursues ; engagement to Gray ; visits fortune-teller ; learns of deception of Stoney’s duel; mistreated and abused by Stoney ; satirised in verse; debts; prenuptial deed securing estates in trust; supports Stoney’s election campaigns ; Stoney forces to sign over fortune; gives secret birth to illegitimate child (Mary Bowes); and Stoney’s infidelities and philandering ; writes “confessions” of misdeeds and indiscretions for Stoney ; short-sightedness ; friendship with Mary Stoney; meets Stoney’s family in Ireland; loses custody of and contact with Strathmore children ; and Paterson’s debts in Cape; in Downman family portraits; pregnancy and child by Stoney ; life insured by Stoney; Mary Morgan serves as maid; visit to France with abducted daughter Anna; confides in Mary Morgan and servants; returns to England; Stoney forces to take laudanum; Stoney threatens life or confinement in asylum ; and Stoney’s attempts to gain custody of Strathmore children; escape from Stoney; letter to
Stoney on flight; brings legal actions against Stoney; sues for divorce; financial dependence on others; suspends and resumes divorce case on Stoney’s plea for arbitration; wins divorce from Stoney; caricatured by Gillray; Stoney traduces; resumes social life ; friendship with James Farrer ; relations with Captain Henry Farrer; Engleheart portrait of; followed and intimidated by Stoney; abducted by Stoney ; Stoney removes from Streatlam Castle and flees; rescued by countrymen; injuries and sufferings from ordeal; resumes relations with Strathmore children; Stoney slanders in divorce actions ; divorce confirmed; and Stoney’s trial for conspiracy; claims and wins restoration of prenuptial deed; final divorce settlement; separated from younger children; claims and wins custody of younger children; makes over remaining estate to son John; care for children after freedom from Stoney ; lives in Purbrook Park; final portrait; pets and animals ; injured in coach accident; moves to Stourfield House; and Stoney’s further appeals against prenuptial ruling; health decline, death and burial in Westminster Abbey ; achievements; The Siege of Jerusalem (poetic drama)
Strathmore, Thomas Bowesh Earl of (Mary’s son): birth; in mourning for father; removed from mother ; in Downman portrait; under Thomas Lyon’s control; sees mother after taking laudanum; Mary’s visits at school; at Eton; resumes relations with mother; at Cambridge; military service; inherits St Paul’s Walden Bury from brother; marriages; inherits title
Strathmore, Thomas Lyonh Earl of
Streatlam Castle, County Durham
Stuart, Lady Louisa
Sunderland, Susannah
Surrey, Charles Howard, Earl of see Norfolkh Duke of
Surtees, Bessie
Sutton, Mary (‘Polly’)
Swinburne, Henry
Temple, Sir William
Thackeray, William Makepeace: stays at Streatlam Castle; The Luck of Barry Lyndon
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Thelwall, John
Thompson, Richard
Thompson, Robert
Thornton, Gabriel
Thrale, Hester (later Piozzi)
Thunberg, Carl Peter
Thurlow, Edwardt Baron
Times, The (earlier Daily Universal Register)
Ton Gazette, The
Tooke, John Horne
‘Torpedo, The’ (poem)
Trevelyan, Sir John
Trials for Adultery or the History of Divorces
Tuthill, Henry
Tyrconnel, George Carpenterh Earl of
Tyrconnel, Sarah Hussey, Countess of (née Delaval)
Tyson, Revd Michael
Upper Ossory, Anne, Countess of (formerly Duchess of Grafton)
Upper Ossory, John FitzpatrickEarl of
Vaillant, Francois le
Verney, Eleanor see Bowes, Eleanor
Verney, Thomas
Vineyard Nursery, Hammersmith
Waite, Elizabeth
Walker, George: witnesses Stoney-Mary wedding; connives at Gray’s relations with Mary; as Mary’s confidante; wife appointed housekeeper at Stanley House; and Stoney’s injury in duel ; and Stoney’s ill-treatment of Mary ; holds Mary’s prenuptial deed ; dismissed by Stoney; Stoney accuses of affair with Mary; on Stephens’ child; and birth of Mary’s daughter; in Gillray cartoon; Stoney accuses in divorce action
Walpole, Horace: on Bate; in London society; on Charlotte Windsor; letter from Mann on Strathmore; dislikes Strathmore; attends Elizabeth Montagu’s blue-stocking gatherings; visits Lady Elizabeth Craven; stays in Paris; on Mary’s flight from Stoney; on Mary’s abduction
Warren, Dr Richard
Watson, William
Wemmergill, County Durham
Westminster Hall, London
Wharton, Thomas
White, George
Wilkes, John
Wogdon, Robert (gunsmith)
Wollstonecraft, Mary: attempts suicide by laudanum; Maria
women: education and upbringing; surrender land and property on marriage; botanical and gardening interests; widowhood and independence; denied custody of children in widowhood; canvassing in Parliamentary elections ; confined by husbands in asylums ; wives’ property rights improved
World, The
Wortley Montagu, Edward
Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu, Sir Sydney
Wright, Sir Sampson
Wrottesley, Sir John
Wynne, William
York, Frederick, Duke of
Young, Arthur