The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-04
STRANGE MARRIAGES.

PctsF the Great married a peasant, who
was hn best counselor and truest friend
NJ De Leseps married at the age Of G. Nile.
de Braga, who was not quite 10 years Of age.
The wife Of Jeremy Taylor the great
English divine, was the natural daughter Of
Charles J.
The countess Of Waldegross has been mar
ried four times. Her present husband is the
famous Lord Collingsford.
Shakespeare marriage to Anne Hathaway
was an example Of inequality, both in age
and in intellect lie was Is and she p when
they were married
Milton married unfortunately. and bis
wife's temper was not unlike that Of Mrs.
Wesley's the wife of John Wesley the
founder of Methodism
John Howard, the philanthropist, married,
out of gratitude, lady twenty years his
senior. She died in few years, and he mar
ried again, this time for love.
Lady Beaconsield was thirty years older
than Disraeli, but the great premier did not
realize any difference in age, 50 remarkably
suited were they 10 each other
The poet Browning has recently stated the
fact that Elizabeth Barrett was six years
older than himself at the time of ther-mar
rage, she being 40, he 81 years
Samuel Johnson al q married woman Of
As. They lived together twenty-five years
and when She died Johnson refused 10 be CON
soled lie never married again
George Eliot married Mr. Lewes, al
though his first wife was living and he had
but limited divorce from her. Soon after
Lewes died She married John Waiter Gross
who was much younger than she was.
Baroness Burdett Coutts forfeited her in
terest ia Coatts bank by marrying William
Ashmead Bartlett He is an American 10y
birth, and at the time Of his marriage was 81
years OF age and lis bride was o., and the
richest woman in the world
\ most unequal marriage which turned out
happily, was that Of Charles, second Duke Of
Richmond and Sarah Cadocan, which was
bargain TO cancel a gambling debt between
their parents, Lady Sarah being a co-heiress.
The duke was Il, the bride was -.
\ marriage that was unequal rs to years.
was that Of Mohammed and his wife. The
latter was twenty years older than the former,
but the union was a cOngonial one, rs the
prophet had predicted il would be. he out
lived his wife and mourned her loss until be
died
The present Bosaparte family have made
some strange matches. Prince Pierre married
Mile. Rgin, a poor sewing woman. Ihtee
times the marriage ceremony was performed,
and each time at different place, 50 rs to
battle Napoleon Ill, who had 1t twice an
nulled.
The Princess Louise of England married
her social inferior and gentleman younger
than herself. Lord Lorne, it is claimed had
ROYAL blood IN his veins, but the Duke OF
Argyle, his father, made no such pretensions,
though the house OF Argyle is the most afls-
tocTatic in England.
The beautiful widow Fitzherbert, who
became the wife of George N, when
Prince of Wales, was 81 years of age when
She was secretly married 70 him. Inc IN
equality Of this marriage was in the diiier-
ence of station and not of ages, the husband
heing n prince of the blood and the wife q
subject
Hon. Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton,
the granddaughter of Richard Brinsiey
Sheridan and sister 20 the Duchess OF soiner-
set and the Countess of Dufferin, was the
divorced wife of the Hon. Chapel Norton
AT 30 wears, when confined 10 her chair 10y
rheumatism, she married William Sterling
Maxwell, twenty years her junior. Strange
to say the match was a happy one.