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Sir James Callander of Craigforth and Lady Elizabeth MacDonnell, sister of an Irish peer, the 1st Marquess of Antrim.

Caroline's Scottish mother was the daughter of a landed gentleman, Col. Her father was an actor, soldier and colonial administrator, the son of the prominent Irish playwright and Whig statesman Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his wife Elizabeth Ann Linley. Portrait engraving of Caroline Norton from the frontispiece of one of her booksĬaroline Norton was born in London to Thomas Sheridan and the novelist Caroline Henrietta Callander. Watercolour sketch of Caroline Norton by Emma Fergusson 1860, National Portrait Gallery of Scotland She modelled for the fresco of Justice in the House of Lords by Daniel Maclise, who chose her as a famous victim of injustice. Norton's campaigning led to the passage of the Custody of Infants Act 1839, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and the Married Women's Property Act 1870. Her husband then sued her close friend Lord Melbourne, then the Whig Prime Minister, for criminal conversation (adultery).Īlthough the jury found her friend not guilty of adultery, she failed to gain a divorce and was denied access to her three sons due to the laws at the time which favoured fathers. She left her husband, who was accused by many of coercive behaviour, in 1836. ​ ​(m. 1877)​Parent(s)Thomas SheridanCaroline Henrietta SheridanĬaroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author. Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet English social reformer and writer (1808–1877)Ĭaroline NortonCaroline Norton, by Sir George Hayter in 1832BornCaroline Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan()22 March 1808London, EnglandDied15 June 1877() (aged 69)London, EnglandNationalityBritishKnown forSocial reformer, writerTitleLady Stirling-Maxwell (1877)Spouse(s)