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Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 12, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 00:21, 8 May 2013‎ (UTC)[reply]

Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange
Lady Grange (1679–1745) was the wife of James Erskine, Lord Grange, a Scottish lawyer with Jacobite sympathies. After 25 years of marriage and nine children, the Granges separated acrimoniously. When Lady Grange produced letters that she claimed were evidence of his treasonable plottings against the Hanoverian government in London, her husband had her kidnapped in 1732. She was incarcerated in various remote locations on the western seaboard of Scotland, including the Monach Isles, Skye and the distant islands of St Kilda. Lady Grange's father was convicted of murder and she is known to have had a violent temper; initially her absence seems to have caused little comment. News of her plight eventually reached her home town of Edinburgh however, and an unsuccessful rescue attempt was undertaken by her lawyer, Thomas Hope of Rankeillor. She died in captivity, after being in effect imprisoned for 13 years. Her life has been remembered in poetry, prose and a play. (Full article...)

postponed from before, FA more than a year: 1 pt, day of death: 1 pt (day of birth not known), woman in history --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:43, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]