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 Robinson (clipper) in "heavy gales and continual snow storms". During the commercial panic of 1857, "Mary Robinson" was one of the many American clippers that was put into the more profitable British trade between India and England. "Mary Robinson" made a very fast passage in 1858. She made it in 58 days from San Francisco to Melbourne, continuing with 40 days from Melbourne to Honolulu. In 1858, "Mary Robinson" loaded guano at Jarvis Island for New York. "Mary Robinson" was lost June 27, 1864, on a voyage from San Francisco at Howland's Island, in the Pacific (). She was loading guano when