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alias the Honble. Miss Chudleigh; alias Mrs. Harvey, alias 
Countess of Bristol, alias finally Duchess of Kingston. Her father 
was Col. Chudleigh, of Chelsea, a younger brother of Sir George 
Chudleigh, Bart., of Ashton, in Devonshire. She was born in 
1720, and through the influence of Mr. Pulteney, afterwards Earl 
of Bath, was appointed at an early age Maid of Honour to the 
Princess of Wales, mother of King George III. Upon a very 
slight acquaintance and under a mistaken pique against another 
person, she privately married at Lainstone, in Hampshire, on 4th 
August, 1744, the Honble. Augustus John Hervey, a young 
lieutenant in the Royal Navy, who in the following year succeeded 
his brother as Earl of Bristol. “From her husband she very soon 
separated, and after 25 years, still maintaining her situation at 
court, and her husband being still alive, she married the Duke of 
Kingston publicly at St. George’s, Hanover Square, March 8th, 
1769. This union was dissolved by the death of the Duke at Bath, 
23rd September, 1773. He bequeathed to her every acre of his 
great estates for her life, and every guinea of his personal property 
absolutely. Under this disappointment, his heirs sought for and 
succeeded in obtaining proof of her first marriage, and the con- 
sequence was, that for the offence of bigamy she was impeached. 
before the house of Lords. The trial lasted five days, commencing 
April 15th, 1776. This event excited, as is well known, the utmost 
sensation in the fashionable world, and the scene was converted by 
the caprice of public taste into a complete holiday spectacle. Ladies 
attended in full court dress, and soldiers were placed at the doors 
to regulate the entrance of the crowds that pressed in. The 
appearance of the Duchess herself is thus described by an eye- 
witness Mrs. Hannah More. ‘Garrick would have me take his 
ticket to go to the trial, a sight which for beauty and magnificence 
exceeded anything that those who were neyer present at a coronation 
or a trial by peers can imagine. Mr. Garrick and I were in full- 
dress by seven. You will imagine the bustle of 5000 people getting 
into one hall. Yet in all the hurry we walked in tranquilly. 
When they were all seated, and the King at Arms had commanded 
silence on pain of imprisonment, (which however was very ill 
