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Jane Weld | |
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| Born | Jane Charlotte Gordon (bapt) 1806 |
| Died | November 24, 1871 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Occupation | benefactor |
Jane Charlotte Weld aka "Baroness Weld" born Jane Charlotte Gordon ((bapt) 1806 – November 24, 1871) was a British convert to Roman Catholicism and benefactor.
Life
Weld was born in Purley on Thames and she was baptised on 10 August 1806 at Sunnyhill.[1] Her parents were Jane Gordon (née Halliday) and Edward Lesmoir Gordon, a Sergeant-at-Arms. Smythie had four siblings, including a sister Harriet who became a writer[2] and a brother, Edward, who was Sergeant-at-Arms at the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838.[3][4] Her father abandoned his family and went to France to avoid his debts. Her mother arranged for her to be educated at home until she was sixteen. At this point she was sent to a Roman Catholic school which is unexplained.
Before she was legally mature she married a leading Roman Catholic solicitor named William Weld. In time after some thought and eleven years of matrimony she converted to Roman Catholicism. She had taken advice and listened to lectures by Nicholas Wiseman.[1]
In 1843 when they were abroad her husband did a small favour for the grand duke of Tuscany and he made him a baron. Weld took the title Baroness and used it from then on.[1]
Death and legacies
Weld died in Ostend in 1871. She left the large fortune to charity and she gave small annuities to her mother and her unmarried sister Elizabeth Matilda Gordon. Her mother and sister tried unsuccessfully to appeal the will. Her other sister Harriette was estranged from her husband who had abandoned her and his parish and she was suing him for separation. Harriet's husband used the court case about the will to estblish a motive for her request for the marriage to be seperated. This caused her to abandon the case.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Cooksey, Pamela (2007-10-04), "Weld, Jane Charlotte [known as Baroness Weld] (1806–1871), convert to Roman Catholicism and benefactor", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/95696, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 2023-05-14
- ^ a b Cotugno, Clare (2004-09-23), "Smythies [née Gordon], Harriette Maria (1813?–1883), novelist and poet", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/42194, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 2023-05-13
- ^ Espinoza Garrido, Felipe (2019), "Smythies, Harriette Maria Gordon", The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–3, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_129-1, ISBN 978-3-030-02721-6, retrieved 2022-09-15
- ^ Summers, Montague (1945). "Mrs. Gordon Smythies". Modern Language Notes. 60 (6): 359–364. doi:10.2307/2911375. ISSN 0149-6611.
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