Frederic Claudet
| Frederic Claudet FCS | |||||||
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| Residence | 10 Oak-hill, Frognal, Hampstead, NW | ||||||
| Occupation | metallurgist | ||||||
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Metallurgist
The divorce case, Claudet v. Claudet, Armstrong, Sefton, Lavagnino and Parry, was recently heard in the London Divorce Court. It was a suit of remarkable character. The petition was that of the husband, a metallurgust, for a divorce by reason of his wife's adultery with the four co-respondents, one of whom is Sir Alexander Armstrong, K.C.B., who is connected with the medical department of the navy. Answers were filed denying the charge, and Sir Alexander Armstrong pleaded condonation. - In opening the case Mr Inderwick said the petitioner, Mr Frederick Claudet, resided at 10, Oak-hill-park, Hampstead. He married, on the 31st of August 1854, the respondent, Mary Harriet Stone, who was the daughter of a banker of Lombard-street. She was an attractive person, and her husband was very well off. The question raised by Sir A. Armstrong was as to whether the husband had condoned his wife's offence. He also pleaded the odd plea that the question of his alleged adultery had been referred to a third person, who found that the respondent had not misconducted herself, and that consequently the award absolved him from these proceedings. In 1863 she appeared to have made the acquaintance of Dr Armstrong at the Isle of Wight. In August, 1865, the petitioner, upon his return from a fishing expedition in Norway, found a letter addressed to his wife from Dr Armstrong, and that was the beginning of the unhappiness between himself and the respondent. The correspondence appeared to have been carried on by means of a private stationer in Vigo-street. About that time Dr Armstrong was knighted and made a K.C.B. The learned counsel then read a number of letters bearing on the case. Ultimately the whole matter of Mrs Claudet's alleged misconduct was referred to Captain Bedford Pim, with the result which has been stated. .... [more] [from New Zealand Herald 1882]
