Seymour Dorothy Fleming
Subtitle: “Sir Richard Worse-than-Sly / Exposing his Wifes Bottom; - O fye! "
Seymour Dorothy Fleming (* 1758 , † September 9, 1818 in Paris ) was a British noblewoman. She married Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet , landlord of Appuldurcombe House , Isle of Wight , on September 20, 1775, at the age of 17 . She was one of two daughters of Sir John Fleming, 1st Baronet (of Brompton Park) (1730–1763) and brought a dowry of £ 52,000 into the marriage.
The first son Robert Edwin died young. The second child, Jane Seymour Worsley, born in August 1781, was of Maurice George Bisset, a close friend and neighbor of Worsley, but was adopted by Sir Richard Worsley as his own child to avoid scandal.
In November 1781, Seymour Dorothy Fleming moved away with Bisset. Sir Richard Worsley therefore sued Bisset in February 1782 for £ 20,000 in damages. There were proceedings that were followed by the public. Rumors spoke of 27 lovers of Lady Worsley. Doctor William Osborn, one of these lovers, testified that she had contracted a sexually transmitted disease during an affair with the Marquess of Graham . When it was found that Sir Richard Worsley had performed his wife Bisset naked, the jury only awarded Sir Richard Worsley 1 shilling .
Despite the separation, the marriage did not end in divorce. After her husband's death in August 1805, Seymour married Dorothy Fleming again in September 1805, her husband was John Lewis Cuchet, who took her surname.
literature
- Hallie Rubenhold : Lady Worsley's Whim; An Eighteenth Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce. Chatto & Windus, 2008.
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| SURNAME | Fleming, Seymour Dorothy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1758 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1818 |
| Place of death | Paris |