Theresa Yelverton

Theresa Yelverton
Theresa Yelverton in Yosemite, 1870, seated in manzanita armchair made by James Hutchings. Carte-de-Visite by James Reilly.
Born
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died13 September 1881

Theresa Yelverton (née Maria Theresa Longworth; c. 1827–33 – 13 September 1881) was an English writer who became notorious because of her involvement in the Yelverton case, a 19th-century Irish law case, which eventually resulted in a change to the law on mixed religion marriages in Ireland.[1]

  1. ^ History Ireland Magazine (2005) The Yelverton Affair; retrieved 9 December 2005 Archived October 31, 2006, at the Wayback Machine