Aet. 45, to the American wife of Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet (succeeded to the title in 1916) of County Monaghan, Ireland. A skillful amateur musician, she read the proofs of Evelyn Innes as a subject-matter expert.
An exhibition of paintings of John Everett Millais was now at the Royal Academy while an exhibition of paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was at the New Gallery.
On 13 January 1898, Lord Charles Beresford was elected by a hair’s breadth to Parliament for the City of York. The Beresfords of Waterford) and Leslies of Monaghan were related Anglo-Irish families active in Conservative party politics and aristocratic English social circles.
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