Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . enemies ; and a number of French accounts of her doings,from Les Aventures Amorouses, which was written by(or for) her displaced rival, Madame de la Touche in 1766,down to M. de Favolles Memoires redig^s in 1813,are Httle more than fiction. Elizabeth Clnidleigh was born about the year 1720,presumably at Chelsea, and was the only daughter ofColonel Thomas Chudleigh, Deputy Governor of ChelseaCollege, a man of good family, and brother of Sir GeorgeChudleigh of Ashton in Devonshire. Colonel Chudleighdied when Elizabeth was only six years of age, lea
Wits, beaux, and beauties of the Georgian era . enemies ; and a number of French accounts of her doings,from Les Aventures Amorouses, which was written by(or for) her displaced rival, Madame de la Touche in 1766,down to M. de Favolles Memoires redig^s in 1813,are Httle more than fiction. Elizabeth Clnidleigh was born about the year 1720,presumably at Chelsea, and was the only daughter ofColonel Thomas Chudleigh, Deputy Governor of ChelseaCollege, a man of good family, and brother of Sir GeorgeChudleigh of Ashton in Devonshire. Colonel Chudleighdied when Elizabeth was only six years of age, leaving hiswidow little more than a poor pension to Hve upon. Infact, we may assume that it was insufficient for her to liveupon, for, as the author of the Authentic Detail quaintly puts it, she hired an house, at that less refinedperiod of time, for a fashionable town residence, and sheaccommodated an inmate, for the purpose of adding tothescantinessof her income. It may betaken for granted,however, that Mrs Ciiudloigh never sank to the level of. F. Kartoloszi, sculpt. IHK DUCHESS OF KlN(5STON From t/u- collection 0/ A. M. /iroat/liv. list/. DUCHESS OF KINGSTON 107 an ordinary lodging-house keeper ; for Horace Walpolerecords that Ehzabeth and her brother were amongst hisplaymates when he was a boy ; and he also tells an anec-dote of their mother which shows her to have been awoman of no common mould. Before the death of herhusband, she was coming home to Chelsea late one night,with two of the old pensioners, walking as patrols behindher coach. Having fallen asleep on the journey, she wasrudely awakened by three footpads, one of whom pre-sented a pistol to her breast and demanded her no notice whatever of the demand or the threat,Mrs Chudleigh coolly put her head out of the other windowof the coach and called to her pensioners to fire ; where-upon the threatening footpad was instantly shot dead,and the other two took to their heels and disappeared. Ehzabeth appears to
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