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unusual facts about George Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley



George Anselm Touchet

George Anselm Touchet, also spelt Tuchet, (died 1689 or earlier) was the Roman Catholic chaplain of Queen Catherine of Braganza, the wife of King Charles II.

The second son of Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, by his marriage to Elizabeth Barnham, and a younger brother of James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, Touchet began life as George Tuchet in Stalbridge, Dorset.

George Thicknesse-Touchet, 20th Baron Audley

He married on 18 April 1816 in Brussels Anne Jane Donelly, daughter of Vice Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly.

Marie Touchet

Marie Touchet (1549 – March 28, 1638), Dame de Belleville, was the only mistress of Charles IX of France.

Philip Thicknesse

In his will he stipulated that his right hand be cut off, and that it should be delivered to his son, Lord Audley, who was inattentive.

Stanislas Touchet

Stanislas-Arthur-Xavier Touchet (November 13, 1842 – September 23, 1926) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Orléans from 1894 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1922.

The Dancing Mistress

At a girl's school in Brighton on the south coast of England, the French mistress, Virginie Touchet, when not teaching French, surreptitiously indulges in an irresistible and ruinous addiction to gambling.

Touchet, Washington

Settlers from the east came to the valley in the early 1850s, but shortly left due to conflicts with the Native people.


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