Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey his "wife", Maria Fitzherbert, with whom he had undergone a form of marriage in a clandestine Church of England ceremony that all parties to it knew was invalid under the Royal Marriages Act 1772. Having encouraged the Prince of Wales to marry his first cousin, Caroline of Brunswick in 1794, Lady Jersey nevertheless set out to make Caroline's life difficult. However, the now Princess of Wales (Caroline) had very little regard for George IV, nor he for her, and after the birth of their child, they lived apart during their twenty-five year marriage, leaving a void Frances and other mistresses,
Mary Frances Leach Holyoke, but returned to Michigan in 1901 to become a fellow and pursue her Ph.D., which she earned in 1903. While a professor at Mount Holyoke, she studied at the University of Zurich and the University of Göttingen. From 1906 to her retirement in 1921, she was a professor of hygiene and chemistry at the Western College of Women. Mary Frances Leach Mary Frances Leach (March 22, 1858 – 1939) was an American chemist and professor of chemistry and hygiene. Leach was born in Payson, Illinois, the daughter of the Reverend Cephas A., and Mary Ann Scarborough Leach. She studied