DIVORCE CASE IN HIGH LIFE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 402, 23 September 1876, Page 2

DIVORCE CASE IN HIGH LIFE.

An action for divorce has been raised and was called in the Court of Session, before Lord Shand, on Tuesday at the instance of the Right Honourable George Robert Hay, commonly called Viscount Dupplin (eldest son of the Earl of Kinnoull), lately residing at Dupplin Castle, in the county of Perth, and presently residing at Grosvenor Gardens, London, against Lady Agnes Cecil Emmeline Duff or Hay, (daughter of the Earl of Fife), commonly called Viscountess Dupplin, now or lately residing at Castle Hotel, Dartmouth, in Devonshire. In the summons the pursuer states that he is the ■ eldest son of the Earl of Kinnoull, and the defender is a daughter of the Earl of Fife. They were married at Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, by the Right Rev. Thomas George Suther, one of the bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, on the 4th October, 1871. After their marriage they lived together as husband and wife until April, 1876, when the defender left the pursuer s house, and she has since been living separately from him. The

pursuer has recently learned and avers that for some time before the defender left his house, and at least during the beginning of March, 1876, she totally alienated her affections from him, and associated with a person of the name of Herbert Flower, lately residing at Park Hotel, Park Place, St. James-street, London. After leaving the pursuer she i-esided for some time at Camden Hill Road, Kensington, and while residing there she frequently met Flower clandestinely, and without the pursuer’s knowledge, at different places in London, and among other places at Park Hotel. On the 12th of May, 1876, she accompanied Flower to Ilfrancombe, in Devonshire, where they took rooms in the Ilfrancombe Hotel, and lived together till the 20th of May. During that time, or part of it, they occupied the same apartments, and were known there as Mr. and Mrs. Flower. Thereafter, and on the 20th of May, she and Flower proceeded to Dartmouth, Devonshire, and took up their residence at the Castle Hotel there. The pursuer believes and alleges that they have since continued to live together at the hotel, and have been known by the names of Mr. and Mrs. Flower.