Kidnap and Attempted Murder in the 18th Century: Viscount Valentia’s ancestry

Originally posted on All Things Georgian:

Arthur Annesley, Baron Altham and Viscount Valentia was the downfall of Grace Dalrymple Elliott. Their indiscretion in a Londonbagnio (a high class brothel) led to her divorce from her portly little doctor of a husband, John Eliot.

Although too much of an irrelevant distraction from Grace’s story to be included in our book on her, An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Valentia’s immediate ancestor...