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London Observer
, 1843: ‘Marriage:
On April 25th 1843 at St. George, Hanover Square, Louis Henri Wohlegemuth to Lavinia Amelia Daviniere, only daughter of John Louis Daviniere of Ducey, Normandy
’.

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  Available online at http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/13644389/photox/4c4fcc7e-bcd1-4943-8ccd-4ed07a7b3e60.

Appendix: Jane Austen’s Mansfield Connection

  
1
  See Peter Meadows,
Joseph Bonomi: Architect
(1988), p.178.

  
2
  This Appendix draws on, and adds new research to, my
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
(2013).

  
3
  Austen described Beckford’s daughter Margaret as her ‘cousin’, but the exact nature of the relationship is unclear.

  
4
  Abbott, p.163.

  
5
  Parker,
The Sugar Barons
, pp.333–4.

  
6
  Austen,
Mansfield Park
(1814), vol. 3, ch.17.

  
7
  See Rediker,
The Slave Ship
, pp.31–2.

  
8
  Clarkson, 1, pp.181–2.

  
9
 
Mansfield Park
, vol. 2, ch.3.

10
  Austen,
Sanditon
(left unfinished, 1817), ch.11.

Bibliography

This bibliography is confined to the principal sources for the lives of Dido Belle and Lord Mansfield. Contextual reading on slavery and abolition is cited in the notes.

Adam, Robert and James,
The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam
, ‘II. The Villa of Earl Mansfield, at Kenwood’ (1778)

Adams, Gene, ‘Dido Elizabeth Belle, a Black Girl at Kenwood: an account of a protégée of the first Lord Mansfield’,
Camden History Review
, vol. 12 (1984), 10–14

Bryant, Julius,
Finest Prospects: Three Historic Houses: a Study in London Topography
(1986)

—,
Kenwood: Paintings in the Iveagh Bequest
(2012)

—,
The Landscape of Kenwood
(1990)

Campbell, Lord John, ‘The Life of Lord Mansfield’, in his
The Lives of the Chief Justices of England
(1849)

‘Charles Daviniere’, www.ancestry.co.uk

Cornforth, John, ‘Scone Palace, Part 1’,
Country Life
, 11 August 1988

‘Dido Elizabeth Belle’, www.ancestry.co.uk

English Heritage (pub.),
Slavery and Justice: The Legacies of Dido Belle and Lord Mansfield
(2007)

Fifoot, C.H.S.,
Lord Mansfield 1705–1793
(1936)

Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook,
Black London: Life Before Emancipation
(1995)

‘Gordon Riots’,
Public Advertiser
, 12 December 1780

Heward, Edmund,
Lord Mansfield: A Biography of William Murray 1st Earl of Mansfield, 1705–1793, Lord Chief Justice for 32 Years
(1979)

Hutchinson, Thomas,
The Diary and Letters of his Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. … compiled from the original documents still remaining in the possession of his descendants by Peter Orlando Hutchinson
, vol. 2 (1886)

‘Inside Out: Abolition of the British Slave Trade’, http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2007/02/27/insideout_abolition_special_feature.shtml

‘John Louis Daviniere’, www.ancestry.co.uk

King, Reyahn, ‘Belle, Dido Elizabeth’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(2004)

Laughton, J.K., revised by Clive Wilkinson, ‘Lindsay, Sir John’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(2004)

‘Life and Character of the Earl of Mansfield’, in
The New Annual Register
(1797)

Mansfield and Stormont Private Family Archive at Scone Palace, NRAS776

Minney, Sarah, ‘The Search for Dido’,
History Today
, vol. 55, no. 10 (October 2005)

‘Obituary of Sir John Lindsay’,
London Chronicle
, 10 June 1788

Oldham, James,
English Common Law in the Age of Mansfield
(2004)

—,
The Mansfield Manuscripts and the Growth of English Law in the Eighteenth Century
(2 vols, 1992)

—, ‘Murray, William, first earl of Mansfield’,
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(2004)

Poser, Norman S.,
Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason
(2013)

Scott, H.M., ‘Murray, David’ in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(2004)

‘The Earl of Mansfield’s Will’,
Diary or Woodfall’s Register
, 20 April 1793

Usherwood, Stephen, ‘The Black Must be Discharged: The Abolitionists’ Debt to Lord Mansfield’,
History Today
, vol. 31, no. 3 (1981)

Walvin, James,
The Zong: A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery
(2011)

Wise, Steven M.,
Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial that Led to the End of Human Slavery
(2005)

About the Author

PAULA BYRNE
is the author of the acclaimed biographies
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*
From this point on, we shall refer to him as Mansfield.

*
An ancient rank of distinction within the legal profession – though it had been declining in importance since the introduction of the even more prestigious status of Queen’s Counsel in the reign of Elizabeth I – which provided the exclusive right to argue before the Court of Common Pleas.