Theresa Yelverton

Theresa Yelverton
Theresa Yelverton in Yosemite, 1870
Born
Manchester, Lancashire, England
Died(1881-09-13)13 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.

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