Monday, February 28, 2011

Her daughter married a rake

Not a word I would use, but wiki does.

Welby. 1931. Other Dimensions: A Selection from the Later Correspondence of Victoria, Lady Welby. Mrs Henry Cust, ed. Jonathan Cape.

Mrs Cust was Lady Welby-Gregory's daughter, Nina, who had married this 'rake', Cust.

Cust had won a by-election for Stamford, Lincolnshire.

From wiki:

"As the result of a purported pregnancy," 'rake' Cust "married in Emmeline Mary Elizabeth Welby-Gregory (1867–1955), known as "Nina", who was the daughter of Victoria, Lady Welby" -- a Griceian and founder of Sensifics, etc.

"The pregnancy was either false or a misrepresentation."

This possibly provoked in Lady Welby a re-consideration of Peirce's views on 'representamen'. For Peirce, a representamen is, in Grice's later words, after the Kiparskys, 'factive' -- unless it isn't.

The wiki goes on:

"The couple, whose marriage was thereafter contentious, did not have any children."

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"Nina Cust was ... [the] editor of her mother's papers. She and her husband are buried together in Belton, Lincolnshire, with a monument designed by her."

Not far from Welby.

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