Personal life Arthur Cowell-Stepney



photo of daughter , heir: alcy cowell-stepney, circa 1880.



lady cowell-stepney, staffordshire bull terrier, dog, , daughter catharine meriel alcyone (1876–1952), circa 1877. photo c. stephenson of ascot, sunninghill.


on 24 august 1875 arthur married margaret warren, fourth daughter of second lord de tabley. margaret close friend , confidante of mary drew, née gladstone, prime minister s daughter. marriage seemed happy, , daughter, catherine meriel (informally named alcyone mother) born on 12 september 1876. (aged five, meriel painted millais; later married sir edward stafford howard.) few weeks later, though, arthur abruptly abandoned wife , daughter, (but 1 presumes not clubs, travellers , brooks s, reform , st. james s) , went abroad, beginning habit of extensive travelling , lengthy sojourns overseas last rest of life. margaret s supporters, including daughter in later years, believed arthur mentally ill. however, during time overseas acquired substantial estates in australia , canada (near enderby, bc, estates managed george heggie). spent time in united states, becoming citizen , ceasing use title. in 1901 transferred management of estates daughter meriel , obtained divorce in idaho. in 1903 lady stepney sued judicial separation, granted on grounds idaho divorce had no weight in english law. extensive newspaper coverage of case turned media cause celebre of edwardian period.


aged 74, sir arthur cowell-stepney found dead on railway station @ yuma, arizona, on 2 july 1909, having apparently gone there try , add rare butterfly collection.








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