Judicial dramas : some society causes célèbres

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Book

Authors

Wyndham, Horace

Tags

Trials, Great Britain, United Kingdom

Abstract

"It is a regrettable, but none the less an obvious, truism that those who come to grips with the law- especially if they happen to be of birth and position- loom larger in the public eye than do, say, prelates and philanthropists. Any way, Lord Ferrers and the Earl of Cardigan and much more familiar figures to the average individual than are Chatham and Lard Shaftesbury; and the bigamous Duchess of Kingston than the lamp-bearing Florence Nightingale. All said and done, the abnormal is a lure. This is why, even in a waxworks Valhalla at a country fair, the fuglemen of criminality are "extras" (with a "chamber of horrors" to themselves), when the crowned heads are thrown in with the cost of admission..." - Introduction

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Contents:
Introduction
Case of Queen Caroline
Case of Colonel Blood
Case of the Early of Cardigan
Case of Admiral Codrington
Case of the Hon. John Colborne
Case of the Countess of Elgin
Case of Lady Ellenborough
Case of Lady Honeyman
Case of Viscount Palmerston
Case of Baron de Vidil
Case of Governor Wall
Case of Sir Robert Wilson

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