page_title: Harriet Mordaunt
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Harriet Mordaunt / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Walton Hall. The original Walton Hall dates back to the 1500s as the family seat of the Morduant Family. The current building, seen here across one of the lakes formed in the River Dene, was rebuilt in 1862 to a design by Sir Gilbert Scott at the commission of Sir Charles Morduant, the 10th Baronet. Some years ago the hall was converted into a very upmarket time share complex. This ran into financial difficulties and today the hall consists of apartments, a conference centre and a spa. See http://www.pumahotels.co.uk/waltonhall
context_page_description: Harriet Sarah, Lady Mordaunt was the Scottish wife of an English baronet and Member of Parliament, Sir Charles Mordaunt. She was the respondent in a sensational divorce case in which the Prince of Wales was embroiled, and after a counter-petition had led to a finding of mental disorder she spent the remaining 36 years of her life out of sight in a series of privately rented houses, and then in various private lunatic asylums, finally ending her days in Sutton, Surrey.
context_section_description: On 6 December 1866, at the age of 18, Lady Mordaunt married Sir Charles Mordaunt, 10th baronet (1836–1897) at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Perth. Sir Charles was a Conservative M.P. for the two-member constituency of South Warwickshire from 1859 to 1868. Through his brother, John Murray Mordaunt (1837–1923), who played cricket for Warwickshire and I Zingari, he was the uncle of three other cricketing Mordaunts, H.J. (Sir Henry Mordaunt, 12th baronet), E.C. and G.J., who all appeared at county level.
  The couple lived at Walton Hall, Warwickshire, which, to mark his coming-of-age, Sir Charles had commissioned in the fashionable Gothic Revival style from the architect George Gilbert Scott, who later designed St. Pancras station in London. A descendant of Sir Charles once counted 72 bedrooms at Walton. They also had a residence in Belgrave Square, London.
  The Mordaunts remained part of the so-called "Marlborough House set" who were associated socially with the Prince and Princess of Wales. According to later legal reports, Sir Charles made a “handsome” settlement on his wife at the time of their marriage and initially they appeared to live “most happily together”. However, it became clear subsequently that Lady Mordaunt was in the habit of entertaining male guests alone while her husband was absent on Parliamentary business or engaged in his various sporting pursuits.
caption: Walton Hall, Warwickshire, home of Sir Charles and Lady Mordaunt
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