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Life and letters of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle
Life and letters of Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle
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CHAPTER III MARRIAGE RESTORATION OF GRACE-DIEU MANOR BIRTH OF A SON AND HEIR 1833-1834 On 25th July 1833, Ambrose Lisle Phillipps de Lisle married Laura Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Thomas Clifford, fourth son of Hugh, fourth Lord Clifford of Chud- leigh, and of his wife, Philipina, Baroness von Liitzow, in the old church of St. James, Spanish Place, London, then the chapel of the Embassy of Spain. The Catholic marriage was followed by the legalising ceremony performed at St. George's Church, Hanover Square. They had not been engaged very many weeks, Laura Clifford being an orphan living with her uncle and guardian, Lord Clifford, at Ugbrooke Park, in Devonshire, and Ambrose's father being anxious to see him married and settled lest his religious fervour should induce him to make vows of celibacy, which he often spoke of as the highest life, and follow up by entering the cloister or ranks of the secular clergy. His love of monasticism had already begun to impress some of his most intimate friends; so much so, that Lady Mary Arundell, wife of James, x. Lord Arundell of Wardour, for whom he entertained a most romantic affection, always addressing her in his letters as his " dear mother " (Ambrose had been motherless from his infancy), writing to him on the 9th of June 1830, made this remarkable statement: " You will be the first founder or rather restorer of monastic institutions in this wretched country, such is my prophecy, mark my words." Shortly before their wedding LauraClifford went to New Hall in Essex, formerly a palace of Queen Mary and her sister Elizabeth, then a convent of Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, where she had been educated and had left a most pleasing reputation: " Every one loved her with her fair complexion and blue eyes, bright and full of ...
This is an OCR edition with typos.
Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III MARRIAGE RESTORATION OF GRACE-DIEU MANOR BIRTH OF A SON AND HEIR 1833-1834 On 25th July 1833, Ambrose Lisle Phillipps de Lisle married Laura Mary, eldest daughter of the Hon. Thomas Clifford, fourth son of Hugh, fourth Lord Clifford of Chud- leigh, and of his wife, Philipina, Baroness von Liitzow, in the old church of St. James, Spanish Place, London, then the chapel of the Embassy of Spain. The Catholic marriage was followed by the legalising ceremony performed at St. George's Church, Hanover Square. They had not been engaged very many weeks, Laura Clifford being an orphan living with her uncle and guardian, Lord Clifford, at Ugbrooke Park, in Devonshire, and Ambrose's father being anxious to see him married and settled lest his religious fervour should induce him to make vows of celibacy, which he often spoke of as the highest life, and follow up by entering the cloister or ranks of the secular clergy. His love of monasticism had already begun to impress some of his most intimate friends; so much so, that Lady Mary Arundell, wife of James, x. Lord Arundell of Wardour, for whom he entertained a most romantic affection, always addressing her in his letters as his " dear mother " (Ambrose had been motherless from his infancy), writing to him on the 9th of June 1830, made this remarkable statement: " You will be the first founder or rather restorer of monastic institutions in this wretched country, such is my prophecy, mark my words." Shortly before their wedding LauraClifford went to New Hall in Essex, formerly a palace of Queen Mary and her sister Elizabeth, then a convent of Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, where she had been educated and had left a most pleasing reputation: " Every one loved her with her fair complexion and blue eyes, bright and full of ...