Hunting an Heiress: Dunns case at Middlesex sessions
Angela Burdett Coutts alleges a barrister, Richard Dunn, pursued her with letters and visits from 1838 onward. The depositions detail repeated annoyances, entries at hotels, and attempts to gain interviews with threats of violence. Dunn seeks to clear his name as trials are scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gta Geonciana Burpett Courts
Rienanp Dunn
Middlesex Sessions
Bodkin
Richard Dunn
Queen’s Hotel
Harrowgate
County of
York
York Castle
London
Gloucester Hotel
Piccadilly
F. Roe
Bow-street
F. Burdett, Bart
F. Burdett
Park Hotel
Norwood
Miss Meredith
Kingstreet
St. James's
Regent’s Park
Bond-street
Sussex-place
Regent's Park
Alexander
Hanover Terrace
Mrs.Alexander
Marylebone Police Court
Kensington-gardens
Ballard
Stratton-street
Albemarle-street
Angela Burdett Coutts
William Ballard
Chapel-place
Cavendish- Square
Burdett Coutts
A. G. Burdett Coutts
Miss Coutts
D—St.w
Rhodes
Paley
Bow Street
Angela Georgiana Burdett Coutts
Surrey
Guitprord
Onslow
Union Hall
Francis Burdett
Dunn
Lock
Chambers
Law v. Daniell Vestry Bond Action at Vice-Chancellor Court
The vice chancellor renewed an injunction against Marylebone vestry from raising 25000 pounds on parish bonds and from mingling rate funds. He found improper borrowing and improper use of funds but noted no proven misconduct or motive against vestry members. The court ordered injunctions and warned against mixing funds across rates and misapplying parish resources.
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TurzEspar
Daniell
Marylebone
K. Brace
George II
Flood
Preachers of Blasphemy and Cemetery Vandalism In London
Police report details Henry Scott a Hampstead resident charged with blasphemy for remarks to a mob near the Colosseum Regent's Park. Separate cemetery case sees John Mears fined five pounds for taking geraniums from Kensall Green graves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Scott
Frederick-street
Hampstead Road
Rawlinson
Hemington
Regent's Park
Colosseum
Davis
Stockport
Inquirers
Price
Marquis of Normandy
Universal Community of Rational Religionists
Mr. Rawlinson
John Mears
Nicholson Street
Hoxton
Great Russell-street
Bloomsbury
Kensall-green
General Cemetery Company
Edward Coulston Arscott
Brown
C.j
Vestry Debates Funds Use and Court Injunction Lines
In a Queen's Bench case Lord Denman weighs whether vestry funds from parish rates may be used to pay debt to Sir Claude Scott and Co. The judge would grant partial injunction to prevent debt payments from rates until law questions on rate validity are resolved. Separately publisher Sir William Follett sues for copyright breach over The Headsman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir
Claude Scott and Co
K. Bruce
Court OF Queen’s Bench
Turspay
Bextizy
Woman restrained after bar dispute with Waddington
A woman resisted as Waddington took her from a bar and cried out for money and her keys. She clung to garden palings as the gaoler struggled to lock her up at the court, money and keys returned aside from the cab fare, and she was taken to the House of Correction.
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Waddington
House of Correction
Bloomsbury-square
Rawlinson
Marylebone
Horsford
George Street
Portland Chapel
Brutal assault and smuggling cases dominate London docket
In a sequence of court notes, Richard Dixon faces a brutal beating charge against Jane Hilliard amid a history of concubinage. The Scotia East Indiaman seizure reveals 363 and 156 pounds of cheroots tied to Palmer Mills Mitchell. A beggar, Elizabeth Bennett alias Dennis, is jailed for heavy money finds after a street encounter. Kingston petty sessions report a plate theft by Thomas Edward Walker ending in committal. A series of inquest notes follow including a death amid police conduct, a river pursuit for stolen silverware, and a fatal kitchen fire accident.
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Richard Dixon
Jane Hilliard
Shadwell
Valentine
K Division
John Nicholas
No 1 K
Broderip
House of Correction
Henry Palmer
Scotia
Campbell Commander
Calcutta
Samuel Afills
John Afitchell
James Blackman Giles
Palmer and Mills
Mitchell
Palmer
Mills
Mitchell’s Pantry
Giles
Commissioners of Customs
Clerkenwell Prison
Kingston
Danie Ropnery
Henry Fletcher
Richard Frederick
Roberts
Hi. Jenkinson
London
Thomas Edward Walker
Margaret Jane Taylor
Vicarage-House
Miss ‘Taylor
Stockley
Miss Taylor
Ham-road
Wapshott
Wapskutt
Guildford
Newgate
Jesday
Higgs
Westminster Bridewell
F Francis
Neeat
Killyallinnleet
Jardine
Randall Yore
Strand
Chandos-street
Bow-street
Dave Mehe
Middlesex
Diavaet
Edgeware
Radne Ee Biaware
Alry
Edge
Theodore Williams
Hendon
J C
Coleman
Brancys
Cabtedi Sd
Holm Rock
Whitehaven Herald
West Bromwich
Staffordshire
Thames Police
Ile
Waterloo-bridge
Gund
Davey
Guy's Hospital
Penclaigh
Povis
Greenwich
Wau Tite
London Bridge
Swiftsure
Hungerford
H. Shirley
de Receive
Stewart
Blackheath Park
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LAW
Streeet
William Brown
William Norris
William Story
James Pritchard
Thomas Phillips
Ann
Trew and Evans
H Division
Phillips
Shackell-street
Bethnal-green
Norris
Pritchard
Shoreditch
Downer
Church-street
Philipps
Broughton
Caroll
Sturd
Pat Carroll
Sintan
Mister Carroll
Plase
Aisy
Nelly
Pat
Bruck
Mister Carrol
Childer
St. Giles’s
Limerick
Repaier
Thames Office
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