The marriage was nullified because of Dalrymple's previous non-ceremonial marriage in 1804 with Johanna, daughter of Charles Gordon of Cluny, whose validity he denied. This first marriage was famously upheld by Sir William Scott in Dalyrmple v. Dalyrmple (July 1811) putting Miss Manners into a difficult position (she was neither widow nor wife nor divorced wife; she had lived effectively without wedlock with a married man). The 1804 marriage though deemed a valid marriage by the laws of Scotland, was annulled by the Court of Session, in June 1820 for reasons unknown. Laura Manners and her mother assumed the surname and arms of the ancient house of Tollemache, of which her mother was the last representative. (In 1821 presumably after their mother became Countess of Dysart, her brothers John and Charles assumed the name by a similar licenses). The 7th Earl of Stair, who succeeded his cousin in 1821, did not remarry after the annulment of his first marriage; Lady Laura Tollemache also did not remarry. See also "The Scottish Nation: Dysart", a history of the earldom, from an unknown source.
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The marriage was nullified because of Dalrymple's previous non-ceremonial marriage in 1804 with Johanna, daughter of Charles Gordon of Cluny, whose validity he denied. This first marriage was famously upheld by Sir William Scott in Dalyrmple v. Dalyrmple (July 1811) putting Miss Manners into a difficult position (she was neither widow nor wife nor divorced wife; she had lived effectively without wedlock with a married man). The 1804 marriage though deemed a valid marriage by the laws of Scotland, was annulled by the Court of Session, in June 1820 for reasons unknown. Laura Manners and her mother assumed the surname and arms of the ancient house of Tollemache, of which her mother was the last representative. (In 1821 presumably after their mother became Countess of Dysart, her brothers John and Charles assumed the name by a similar licenses). The 7th Earl of Stair, who succeeded his cousin in 1821, did not remarry after the annulment of his first marriage; Lady Laura Tollemache also did not remarry. See also "The Scottish Nation: Dysart", a history of the earldom, from an unknown source.
