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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
ter. Yet I have always found him apt in apprehending legal questions when raised, and in indicating which way he should instruct the jury. His wife is Lady St. John, Louisa, daughter of Sir Charles William Boughton Rouse, and widow of Lord St John, was married in 1823 to Sergeant Vaughan, and died in 1840. the origin of whose title I do not remember, though I think he explained it to me. She is of the family of Sir Theodosius Boughton, whose murder by Captain Donellan By poison, August 21, 1780. The facts are given in Wills on Circumstantial Evidence, ch. III. sec. 7; and more at length in James Fitzjames Stephen's General View of the Criminal Law of England, pp. 338-356. makes such a figure in the history of crime. I have met at dinner the present Sir William Boughton, Sir William Edward Boughton, son of Sir Charles William Boughton Rouse, died in 1856. He was the successor, but not the immediate or lineal successor, of Sir Theodosius. who is the successor of Sir Theodo