February 4th |
Marriage of H.T. Bettesworth of Caerhays (1826) | |||||||||
                                                                                                                           
He married Georgiana Augusta Leigh (1808 – 1866), a niece of Lord Byron, on this day in but in 1829 also ran off to the continent, not for financial reasons but with his sister-in-law Elizabeth Medora Leigh (1814 – 1849). They went to Normandy, where they passed themselves off as brother and sister before moving to Brittany where Medora became a Catholic and declared her intention of entering a convent. In 1830, he married secondly Susannah Burdett (1800 – 1886), daughter of the English reformist politician, Sir Francis Burdett, by whom he had a daughter. |