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265:", continuing "May one speculate on the appropriateness of the Donegall coat-of-arms? The supporters are two red wolves held in chains of gold." On 23 December 1902, by now aged eighty, Lord Donegall married thirdly Violet Gertrude Twining (1880–1952) only daughter of Henry St George Twining, a banker of
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Donegall the most honourable Mary Ann
Williams Chichester marchioness of, of 7 Upper Rock-gardens Brighton (wife of the most honourable George Augustus Hamilton marquess of Donegall) died 11 November 1901 Probate London 9 December to Alice Cobb widow Effects £43 1s 3d" in Probate Index for 1901
520:"Donegall the most honourable George Augustus Hamilton marquess of, of 117 Cromwell-road Middlesex died 13 May 1904 at 42 Norfolk-road Brighton Probate London 29 November to the most honourable Violet Gertrude marchioness of Donegall widow Effects £27" in Probate Index for 1904 online: on
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drily called this "a fact which Mr. Chichester, with his large experience in such cases, would, one would think, have known", and added that "the case is just one of those which create the vulgar belief that the class to which Mr. Chichester belongs is exceptionally immoral".
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for a lady "willing to purchase the rank of a peeress... for twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, paid in cash to her future husband, she must be a widow or a spinster—not a divorcee."
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dated 25 May 2002 at smh.com.au. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
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