The Campbell divorce case : copious report of the trial / With numerous portraits of those concerned drawn from life by Harold Furniss.
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- 1887
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Credit: The Campbell divorce case : copious report of the trial / With numerous portraits of those concerned drawn from life by Harold Furniss. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![her husband during that illness ? The operation was performed on th6 19th. On the 27th Lady Colin left her husband in bed, in charge'of a nurse and went away to Leigh Court, on another visit to Lady Miles and she remained away from home from December 27 until January 12 during the latter part of that period being on a visit to Ascot. She'returned on January 12; but you will find that during her life in London, during the early months of the year 1882, she led quite an independent life. She°went about a good deal; she was out all day ; she dined out; she returned home late at night, sometimes gentlemen accompanying her. In every respect she behaved with such freedom as if there was no tie whatever between her and Lord Colin. In fact, the name of Lady Colin was merely a sort of warrant which unmarried women, according to usages of society cannot have. I am not now going into the details of the evidence of this part of Lord Colin’s married life. Lady Colin’s next absence from her husband took place at Easter, 1882, when she went on a third visit to Lady Miles at Leigh Court, and she remained there from April 22 to April 30 You will find that she had been frequently seeing Lord Blandford in the intervals between her return from the Christmas visit at Leigh Court and her going down to Leigh Court at Easter, 1882. She had been in perpetual correspondence with him. On the occasion of the Easter visit Lord Bland- ford was also a visitor at Leigh Court, and it so happened that the bed- rooms occupied by Lord Blandford and Lady Colin were close to one another. Lord Blandford slept in the room next to her. I shall call before you a good deal of evidence which I think will lead your minds to the conclusion that there is no doubt whatever that at that Easter visit at Leigh Court Lord Blandford committed adultery with Lady Colin, if he had not done so before; that the proximity of their rooms, whether accidental or intentional, was used to afford facilities for carrying 6n this intimacy. On April 30. the visit to Leigh Court came to an end,'but not so Lady Colin’s association with Lord Blandford. She did not return home to her husband, ^he went away to Pans. She joined a party in Paris, and of that party Lord Blandford was a member. They remained in Paris from April 30 until May 13. Lady Cohns chaperone was Lady Miles; and it will be for you to consider whether the austere control of that estimable lady was sufficient to prevent mischief at Paris any more than at Leigh Court. 'Lady Colin paid a subsequent visit to Leigh Court not very long after her return from Laris, it was in the month of June. From there she came up to London sh7d?d WbVtle^'7he °rb]eCt 7 h®r return Can be jessed only from what Raer who'Sp iS t r° pack 0<T at 0nCC to Switzerland her maid, Rose Baer, who will be called before you as a witness in this case. I shall wait b curiosity to see whether any reason can be suggested for packing off Rose Baer to her native country in tins way, except that Rose1 Baer knew dnnht11? H f P i h7d eTe 0n’0r that she had not heen so discreet as, no doubt. Lady Cohn thought it was the duty of a lady’s maid to be. The married life of these two people went on in this way at Cadogan-place. ou will have a great deal of evidence as to the calls made by Lord Bland- 7 £ent’e™nYand aS '°th0 wa-v in which Lady Colin went out nto Society, spent her days away from her husband, and returned home Wc ?f 7° 7, he l0™1*1/- and had supper laid in the dining room for 1™' adr?e.T}tlemen fiends who came with her. In the month of August, I S Loid Colin went down to Scotland. Lady Colin remained behind at Cadogan-place. On August 12th Lady Colin left Cadogan-place. She went hotM lPs!eetH Wh7r,e vThe7 18 a very e°od hotPl- She stayed at that hotel from Saturday till Monday with Lord Blandford. Lord Colin came](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28405134_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
