THE YELVERTON CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 907, 21 January 1882, Page 3

THE YELVERTON CASE.

Intelligence has been received in letters arriving by the Cape mail that Miss Longworth, the plaintiff in the well-known Yelverton marriage case case, has died at Pietermaritzburg, from dropsy. She claimed to have been married to Major Yelverton, now Yiscount Avonmore, according to both the law of Scotland and the law of Ireland, The Major repudiated her claim, and defended actions brought by her in 1861 in Dublin and in Edinburgh to have the marriage declared valid. In the Scotch Supreme Courts Major Yelverton prevailed, but he was unsuccessful in the Irish Courts. The Scotch decision was affirmed by the House of Lords, and Major Yelverton married another lady. In the Scotch Courts it was attempted to prove the validity of the irregular Scotch marriage. In Ireland the question raised was as to the legality of a marriage performed by a priest, in which the contracting parties were respectively a Roman Catholic and a Protestant, Miss Longworth being a Roman Catholic, After the Law Courts had decided upon her case she continued to styie herself first Mrs Yelverton, and then, on the Major succeeding to the title of Yiscount, Lady Avonmore. At the time her case was one of much notoriety, and she was the object of considerable popular in' terest and sympathy. With this help, and aided also by respectable attainments as a reader and elocutionist, she afterwards won some success as a public reader and lecturer. In this character she has travelled both at Homo and abroad, and has from time to time been heard of in America and in the colonies.