Venue - The Shirehall, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury SY2 6ND (nb Last one at this venue)
Subject - "The Runaway Wife, The Bigamous Earl and The Farmer’s Daughter"
Speaker - Professor Rebecca Probert
In 1790 a wedding took place in a small Shropshire village between Sarah Hoggins, a local farmer’s daughter, and the mysterious ‘John Jones’ – who was in fact Henry Cecil, heir to the Earl of Exeter, and already married. But how did this unlikely union come about? What had happened to Henry’s first wife? What risks was Henry running by committing bigamy? And was there a happy ending? Drawing on new archival material and research, Professor Rebecca Probert explores the dramatic events behind Henry’s multiple marriages and sets them in the context of the law and practice of the time, finding that the truth is even stranger than the myths that have arisen.
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