02319nam 2200505 450 991013665070332120230808200034.01-78074-961-9(CKB)3710000000907756(MiAaPQ)EBC4554681(EXLCZ)99371000000090775620180504d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe trials of the King of Hampshire madness, secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England /Elizabeth FoysterLondon, England :Oneworld,2016.1 online resource (xxxiii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations1-78074-960-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-324) and index.The 3rd Earl of Portsmouth voted in the House of Lords, took county positions, invited Jane Austen to his balls, counted William Cobbett as one of his Hampshire neighbors and had Lord Byron as his best man at his second marriage. Then, at the age of fifty-five, his own family launched a case citing him as a danger not only to the peerage but to himself. Historian Elizabeth Foyster invites us into the jury box for the lengthiest, most expensive and vastly controversial lunacy commission ever heard, including accusations of abductions, sodomy, blackmail and domestic violence.Insanity (Law)Great BritainHistory19th centuryTrialsGreat BritainHistory19th centuryNobilityGreat BritainBiographyMentally illGreat BritainBiographyMental illnessGreat BritainHistory19th centuryMentally illGreat BritainHistory19th centuryGreat BritainHistory1800-1837Insanity (Law)HistoryTrialsHistoryNobilityMentally illMental illnessHistoryMentally illHistory616.89009Foyster Elizabeth A.1968-1108808MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910136650703321The trials of the King of Hampshire2886915UNINA