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Person’s Profile

The Hon. Mildred Mary (Coleridge) Adams (1847-14 January 1929)

Description

member of the Gosling Society as ‘Ladybird’

Biography

The only daughter of John Duke Coleridge, later 1st Lord Coleridge, and Jane Fortescue Seymour (d. 1878), she married (24 June 1885) Charles Warren Adams. She had a row with her father about her marriage which was made public because Adams sued her brother Bernard for libel.  She was a Gosling as Ladybird 1859- c. 1866;   [PB, Coleridge, Story of a Devonshire House; The Times reports of the libel trial 21, 22 November 1884, 5, 25 June 1885.]