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abortion

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Barnard Castle, County Durham

Bate, Revd Henry: character and behaviour; in supposed duel with Stoney; and
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see
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Boscawen, Frances

Boswell, James

botany: women’s interest in; and plant collecting

Boteler, Lady Anne

Boteler, Sir Oliver

Bourn, Henry

Bowes, Sir Adam

Bowes, Andrew Robinson (Stoney): appearance and character ; in supposed duel with Bate ; reported quarrel with Mary; early relations with Mary; marries Mary; military career; in Newcastle; portrayed in Thackeray’s
Barry Lyndon
; birth and background; temper and indiscipline ; debts and financial mismanagement ; charm; courts Hannah Newton; marriage to Hannah; treatment of servants and subordinates; mistreats Hannah; frustrated hopes for heir; bequest from Hannah; retires from army on half-pay; and Hannah’s death ; courts Anne Massingberd ; pursues Mary; plans Mary’s visit to fortune-teller; mistreats and brutalises Mary in marriage ; and Mary’s prenuptial deed safeguarding wealth ; adopts name Bowes; stands unsuccessfully for Parliament ; gains control of Mary’s fortune ; and birth of Mary’s child by Gray; mistresses and illegitimate children ; publishes Mary’s “confessions”; visits family in Ireland (1778); social life in Newcastle; despoils estates ; tyrannises sister Mary; obsession with horse racing; elected High Sheriff of Northumberland; entertains at Gibside; aspires to Irish peerage; fights and wins Parliamentary seat in Newcastle (1780); Parliamentary attendance and career ; and sister Mary’s escape and return to Ireland; makes use of St Paul’s Walden Bury; in Downman family portraits; insures Mary’s life ; fall from social grace; loses Parliamentary seat in 1784 election; marriage plans for stepdaughters; abducts Anna Maria and flees to France ; demands Mary write Book of Errors; leaves Paris for England; and Dorothy Stephenson’s confinement ; induces Mary to take laudanum; attempts to gain custody of Strathmore children; threatens Mary’s life or confinement in asylum; Mary escapes from ; Mary brings legal actions against; removes and constrains children during Mary’s legal actions; Mary sues for divorce ; proposes arbitration; dismisses and threatens estate tenants; appeals against divorce verdict ; traduces Mary; follows and intimidates Mary; abducts Mary; flees Streatlam Castle with Mary; apprehended and conducted to London; tried before Buller and remanded in custody ; lampooned and caricatured ; slanders Mary in divorce action ; released on bail; tried for conspiracy and convicted; appeals to courts against prenuptial ruling; exploits Mary Farrer against husband; Mary finally wins divorce from; separates Mary from younger children ; and custody and support of children; relinquishes claim on children; life as prisoner ; death and will;
The Confessions of the Countess of Strathmore

Bowes, Lady Anna Maria (Mary’s daughter)
see
Jessop, Lady Anna Maria

Bowes, Eleanor (
née
Verney)

Bowes, Elizabeth, Lady (
née
Blakiston)

Bowes, Elizabeth (Mary’s aunt)

Bowes, Sir George (16th century)

Bowes, George (Mary’s father): death ; family and background; marriages; coal-mining ownership; as M P; and birth of Mary; improves Gibside estate ; hunting and horse-racing; encourages Mary’s upbringing and education; mausoleum; buys Hogarth’s
Marriage A-la-Mode
; friendship with 8th Earl of Strathmore ; health decline

Bowes, George (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 visits at school; at Eton; acquires St Paul’s Walden Bury; at Cambridge; military service; death; widow marries Colonel Price

Bowes, Jane (Mary’s aunt)

Bowes, John (Mary’s grandson)

Bowes, Lady Maria Jane (Mary’s daughter)
see
Price, Lady Maria Jane

Bowes, Mary (Mary’s daughter by Gray): secret birth; sends botanical cabinet to nephew; relations with mother; in Downman portrait; sent away to school ; and mother’s flight from Stoney; Stoney removes to Eliza Stephens’ care; kept from mother during Stoney’s captivity; mother claims renewed custody; reunited with mother; character ; remains unmarried; accompanies mother to Stourfield House; settles in Bath and death