Cases that gripped the public while making legal history over past 200 years
– war hero with a colourful heritage and the prospect of a large inheritance to come. She, on the other hand, was the 16-year-old daughter of a modest Edinburgh fishing tackle maker, whose reputation her family were anxious to protect. The questions that swirled around their relationship would be picked over in a court case that could easily have slipped straight from the love-struck world of the Bridgertons. The question of whether Major William Steuart, VC, went down on bended knee one February night in 1866 to take teenage Mary Wilson as his wife led to the highest court in the...
Source: heraldscotland.com