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Lot 962
CARDIGAN EARL OF: (1797-1868) British Lieutenant General, commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. Cardigan led the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. Autograph D.S., Cardigan, one page, folio, Gibraltar, 1st October 1858. The document is a codicil to the last Will and Testament prepared by Cardigan a little earlier, before he left England, and states 'I hereby bequeath in the event of my death to my wife Adeline Louisa Maria, Countess of Cardigan….the sum of three thousand pounds (£3000) per annum during her life.' Countersigned at the foot by two witnesses. With blank integral leaf (slight traces of former mounting). Some extremely minor, light age wear, VG Adeline, Countess of Cardigan and Lancastre (1824-1915) Second wife of the Earl of Cardigan. The couple were married in Gibralter on 28th September 1858, just a few days before the present document was prepared. Adeline, a leading courtesan, had been conducting an affair with Cardigan for some time while his first wife was still alive. The new Countess was shunned by polite society and seemingly led an eccentric life, as demonstrated by her scandalous memoirs, My Recollections, published in 1909.
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