Harriet St. John-Mildmay

From A Brief Memoir of the Mildmay Family, by Lt.-Col. Herbert A. St. John Mildmay

In 1815, Sir Henry married at Wurtemberg his deceased wife’s sister, Harriet, and by her had three sons - Edmond, Horace, and Augustus Fitzwalter. She died age 34 (sic) on the 9th December 1834, and was buried at Milan.

She was a married woman at the time she went away with Sir Henry Mildmay, and this caused a trial, not for divorce, for the case was undefended, but to assess the damages when the jury gave the large sum of 15,000 pounds, the highest damage given in a case of crim. con.

Lady Granville in a letter from Paris of 20 April 1824, says, when describing people at the opera, that in one box was: “Lady Mildmay, beautiful as ever but cut in brass.”

In another letter of December of the same year, she writes… no mention of Lady Mildmay (despite a mention of Sir Henry Mildmay).

Lord William Lennox says of Sir Henry Mildmay that he was “A high bred gentleman, full of information, with only a slight tinge of puppyism.”