Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial) Pitt Crawley. Amanda Murray appeared as Ann Dobbin in three episodes. The story is set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers, and both of them are affected by the Battle of Waterloo. Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial) Vanity Fair was a BBC Pebble Mill Production consisting of 16 half-hour episodes. Shot on location and in studio. Locations included Winchester and Thetford. Virtually all the interiors were shot in Studio A at Pebble Mill. The
Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet to an illegitimate daughter, who married Henry Venables-Vernon, afterwards the 3rd Baron Vernon. Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet (c. 1721-23 August 1778), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1747 and 1778. Sedley was the eldest son of Sir Charles Sedley, 1st Baronet, son of Sir Charles Sedley, illegitimate son of Sir Charles Sedley, 5th Baronet and was educated at Westminster School and University College, Oxford. He succeeded his father in 1730. He sat as Member of Parliament for Nottingham from 1747 to 1754 and 1774 to 1778. Sedley died