Georgiana Carolina Dashwood, Lady Hastings

Georgiana Carolina Dashwood (1796–1835), Lady Hastings

Georgiana Carolina Dashwood (1796–1835) was the daughter of Sir Henry Dashwood, MP.

She married Sir Jacob Astley, Bt in 1819 and had two sons. In 24th June 1829, she eloped with Captain Thomas "Tommy" Garth RN, the nephew of General Thomas Garth, an chief equerry to King George III. Her husband filed a divorce suit against her adultery. In the court, she accused her husband of having “improper familiarities and adultery with abandoned women”[1]. It was later proved by the court and Lady Astley was dismissed from the suit.

However, the couple did not reconcile and Lady Astley went to live with Captain Garth. In October 1830, Garth was committed for debt to the King’s Bench Prison, Southwark and Lady Astley lived with him there. In 1835, she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, Georgiana[2]. Soon after the confinement, she caught scarlet fever and died at the age of 39.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts at Doctors' Commons, and in the High Court of Delegates: Michaelmas term, 1827-Trinity term, 1828, and some cases of an earlier date in the supplement".
  2. ↑ "Georgiana Carolina Dashwood, Lady Hastings (1796 – 1835)".
  3. ↑ "A George III silver two-handled tray, Paul Storr for Rundell, Bridge & Rundell, London, 1815, after designs by Thomas Stothard".
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