Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange

Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange

Rachel Chiesley was the wife of Lord Grange, a Scottish lawyer with Jacobite sympathies. After 25 years of marriage and nine children, the Granges separated acrimoniously. When Lady Grange produced letters that she claimed were evidence of his treasonable plottings against the Hanoverian government in London, her husband had her kidnapped in 1732. She was incarcerated in various remote locations on the western seaboard of Scotland, including the Monach Isles, Skye and St Kilda.

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Summary Rachel Chiesley, Lady GrangeRachel Chiesley was the wife of Lord Grange, a Scottish lawyer with Jacobite sympathies. After 25 years of marriage and nine children, the Granges separated acrimoniously. When Lady Grange produced letters that she claimed were evidence of his treasonable plottings against the Hanoverian government in London, her husband had her kidnapped in 1732. She was incarcerated in various remote locations on the western seaboard of Scotland, including the Monach Isles, Skye and St Kilda. News of her plight eventually reached her home town of Edinburgh and an unsuccessful rescue attempt was undertaken by her lawyer, Thomas Hope of Rankeillor. She died in captivity, after being in effect imprisoned for over 13 years. Her life has been remembered in poetry, prose and plays, including a play on her life, The Lost Lady of Preston, by James Erskine, which is published by Macmillan at £16.99. For more information, visit: http://www.macmillan.co.uk/the-lost-lady-of-preston/ or call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90 or visit a local Samaritans branch, see www.samaritans.org/ for details. In the U.S. call the National Suicide Prevention Line on 1-800-273-8255 or visit www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org. For confidential support on suicide matters call the Salvation Army in the United States at 1-877-457-9255 or click here for information on how to get in touch with the Samaritan Samaritans in the UK.

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