William Henry Chetwynd
Deceased Person
1811 – 1890
Who was William Henry Chetwynd?
William Henry Chetwynd was a son of Sir George Chetwynd, 2nd Baronet who was involved in a sensational divorce case in 1865. He lived at Longdon Hall, Rugeley, in Staffordshire.
He married Blanche Chetwynd-Talbot, daughter of Rev. Hon. Arthur Chetwynd-Talbot and the niece of Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1854: he was 42 and she was 18. In 1865 she brought an action for divorce under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 accusing him of cruelty and adultery, he counter-claiming that she had also committed adultery, fornication and incest.
Chetwynd married for the second time in 1875 Mary Parkin, daughter of James Parkin.
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