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LADY JANE TOLLEMACHE, AFTERWARDS LADY
JANE HALLIDAY.
LADY JANE TOLLEMACHE, the youngest daughter of the
third Earl of Dysart, was born in 1750, five years after her
sister Louisa. She appears to have been a favourite with her father,
for when she was six years old he notes in his “ Book of Account” that
he had bought a present for her: “April 3, 1750. To a small enamel’d
Box sett in Pinchbeck1 for my Daughter Jane, three shillings and
sixpence.”
As has already been said, Lady Jane Tollemache was educated at
Mrs. Holt’s school in London. On her return home she wrote to her
brother Wilbraham, who was staying with Mr. Tomkinson at Dorfold in
Cheshire, that their sailor brother William had sent home a jar of olives
from Cadiz. And on the 24th of August, 1770, she wrote to her brother
from Ham House, saying, “The week after I came here we din’d at
Mr. Walpole’s: he has made his place” [Strawberry Hill] “vastly pretty,
and built a gallery to his house.”
Later in the same year, and seven months after her father’s death,
Lady Jane, who was then twenty, ran away with Captain John Delap
Halliday of Castlemains, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Mrs. Harris, mother of the first Earl of Malmesbury, mentions this
elopement in a letter to her son. She wrote from Salisbury on the 31st
of October, 1770:2 “ Lady Jane Tollemache, daughter to Lord Dysart,
is gone to Scotland with a Captain Halliday of the light horse; his father
is a man of fortune. The Captain was just going to be married to Miss
Byron, the coach and clothes were bought, but he saw Lady Jane twice
at the Richmond Assembly, was captivated, and wrote a letter to Miss
1 Pinchbeck, called by the name of its in- 2 Letters of the first Earl of Malmesbury, his
ventor, was a mixture of copper and zinc which Family, and Friends, vol. i., p. 206.
looked like gold.
US
JANE HALLIDAY.
LADY JANE TOLLEMACHE, the youngest daughter of the
third Earl of Dysart, was born in 1750, five years after her
sister Louisa. She appears to have been a favourite with her father,
for when she was six years old he notes in his “ Book of Account” that
he had bought a present for her: “April 3, 1750. To a small enamel’d
Box sett in Pinchbeck1 for my Daughter Jane, three shillings and
sixpence.”
As has already been said, Lady Jane Tollemache was educated at
Mrs. Holt’s school in London. On her return home she wrote to her
brother Wilbraham, who was staying with Mr. Tomkinson at Dorfold in
Cheshire, that their sailor brother William had sent home a jar of olives
from Cadiz. And on the 24th of August, 1770, she wrote to her brother
from Ham House, saying, “The week after I came here we din’d at
Mr. Walpole’s: he has made his place” [Strawberry Hill] “vastly pretty,
and built a gallery to his house.”
Later in the same year, and seven months after her father’s death,
Lady Jane, who was then twenty, ran away with Captain John Delap
Halliday of Castlemains, Kirkcudbrightshire.
Mrs. Harris, mother of the first Earl of Malmesbury, mentions this
elopement in a letter to her son. She wrote from Salisbury on the 31st
of October, 1770:2 “ Lady Jane Tollemache, daughter to Lord Dysart,
is gone to Scotland with a Captain Halliday of the light horse; his father
is a man of fortune. The Captain was just going to be married to Miss
Byron, the coach and clothes were bought, but he saw Lady Jane twice
at the Richmond Assembly, was captivated, and wrote a letter to Miss
1 Pinchbeck, called by the name of its in- 2 Letters of the first Earl of Malmesbury, his
ventor, was a mixture of copper and zinc which Family, and Friends, vol. i., p. 206.
looked like gold.
US