Originally posted by ardcarp
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Muir says of the children, "Their father was the Archbishop of Canterbury and he had proposed to their mother when she was 11. She was his second cousin, Mary Sidgwick, a formidably brainy lady described by Gladstone as 'the cleverest woman in Europe'. After bearing the archbishop six children she decided that enough was enough and left Lambeth Palace to live with her lesbian lover, Lady Tait, daughter of the previous Archbishop of Canterbury. The surviving children, three brothers and their sister, were homosexual, if anything."
Good(?) to hear this morning that Mary competed with her own daughter for the affections of Ethel Smyth, and that the latter played cricket!
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