Ley, Hugh

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HCR diary 25.2.1826 "dined at Henry Rogers' at Highbury" a Dr Leigh or Lee among guests

                    25.1.1837 "The mortality of this season is unusually great - Dr Ley is gone"

Reminiscences 19.10.1857 Mrs Aders' daughter Ellen Kelly "I should think about the worst person I ever knew - She was plain in person but had a certain humour & vivacity in society which enabled her to gain the affections of an amiable M.D. a Dr Ley whom she married and all but ruined - She spent his money pawned his plate & so tormented him by her misconduct every way, that she killed him by making him wretched"

Hugh Ley (DNB 1790-1837). See my Background Article "3 Wives, 3 Husbands Living"