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Lord Arthur Clinton

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while claiming to be Lord Arthur Clinton, saying that the reported death was a fiction contrived by family and friends to avoid disgrace. She sometimes dressed as a woman while impersonating Clinton, saying that this was a disguise to avoid attention after the notoriety of the Boulton and Park case.
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often appeared in public in female dress. On 28 April 1870, they were arrested and later charged "with conspiring and inciting persons to commit an unnatural offence" with Clinton and others.
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at Portsmouth. Charges of "desertion and breaking his parole" were upheld by the court and Lord Albert Pelham-Clinton was sentenced to be dismissed from the navy, although
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and charged with obtaining £2,000 from one man and £3,000 from another under false pretences. Fearneaux was found to have been living for some years as a man in
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known to the stage and friends as "Stella". Nominally, Clinton was still a naval officer, although he was placed on the retired
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Robert Aldrich, Garry Wotherspoon, "Who's who in gay and lesbian history: from antiquity to World War II", Routledge, 2001,
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On 8 February 1882, twelve years after Clinton's death, Mary Jane Fearneaux and James Gething were arrested in
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Clinton officially died on 18 June 1870, the day after receiving his subpoena for testifying in the trial of
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Reports of cases in criminal law argued and determined in all the courts in England and Ireland, Volume 12
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Victorian Sensation: Or, the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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At the subsequent trial of the pair, Gething was acquitted and Fearneaux changed her
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The changing room: sex, drag and theatre: Gender in performance
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Clinton was educated at Woodcote School, Reading, and then
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of the United Kingdom in 1864, when he was the 23 year-old
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reported that the case referred to Lord Arthur in error.
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to guilty; she was sentenced to seven years in prison.
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A studio, black and white photograph of three men, one is seated on an armchair, another is sitting on the floor beside him. The third is sitting behind them on a high stool and looks into the camera.
Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park
Newark
John Handley
Edward Denison
Christchurch, Hampshire
Liberal
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle
Lady Susan Douglas-Hamilton
Alma mater
Eton College
United Kingdom
Royal Navy
Crimean War
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Liberal Party
member of Parliament
Boulton and Park
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle
Lady Susan Harriet Catherine Hamilton
Lady Susan Vane-Tempest
Edward VII
Prince of Wales
Horatio Walpole
Eton College
Royal Navy
Crimean War
Baltic Campaign of 1854
Naval Brigade
Indian Mutiny

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