{"id":11602,"date":"2016-08-15T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/?p=11602"},"modified":"2016-08-16T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T11:04:48","slug":"duke-st-albans-unveils-brighton-blue-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/news\/local-news-brighton\/2016\/08\/duke-st-albans-unveils-brighton-blue-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Of St Albans Unveils Brighton Blue Plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"

By William Mills<\/span><\/p>\n

On Friday 12 August the 14th Duke of St Albans unveiled a blue plaque in Brighton’s Regency Square in the presence of the deputy mayor and invited guests.<\/span><\/p>\n

The plaque commemorates the life of regency era socialite and adventurer Harriot Mellon who lived to the age of fifty between the years 1777 and 1837. <\/span><\/p>\n

Starting out life as part of a troupe of travelling actors she married Thomas Coutts of the banking family which is now renowned as the present day Queen’s bankers.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was left a fortune and married for a second time, the 9th Duke of St Albans who was 23 years her younger.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Walter Scott wrote to her to congratulate her on this second marriage. Her reply to Scott is quoted in full in his journal for June 30 1827.<\/span><\/p>\n

“What a strange eventful life has mine been, from a poor little player child, with just food and clothes to cover me, dependent on a very precarious profession, without talent or a friend in the world – first the wife of the best, the most perfect being that ever breathed …and now the wife of a Duke! You must write my life… my true history written by the author of Waverley”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chairman of the Brighton & Hove Commemorative Plaque Panel Roger Amerena acted as host to the distinguished visitors, having met them at the station and taken them to his lovely home, Montpellier Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Duke, left, and Roger Amerena speak with deputy mayor Mo Marsh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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