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Are we sure Karl Marx was blaming the Duchess who is subject of this wiki article? I have read his linked article and find the woman referred to as responsible for the clearances was the Duchess of Sutherland (sometimes called Countess, for her peerage in own right) of the 1820s, the wife of the 1st Duke, and not that of the 3rd Duke, who did not become Duchess until her husband's succession to the peerage in 1861. The latter, though referred to in the opening passage of the article, was the grand-daughter in law of the 1st Duke's wife (of the clearances).Cloptonson (talk) 22:29, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
A further check also reveals that she would not have been Duchess of Sutherland at the time Marx's article was published, that would have been her mother-in-law, wife of the 2nd Duke (the former Lady Harriet Howard, who did not marry until 1823 and whose husband did not become Duke until 1833). I therefore contend the section really belongs to the article on the wife of the 2nd Duke inasmuch as she was being criticised for campaigning against American slavery while a predecessor Duchess was remembered to be responsible for the clearances. The future wife of the 3rd Duke was not born until 1829.Cloptonson (talk) 14:46, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
I have set up this paragraph, with citation to Marx's article, in article on wife of 2nd Duke, and will therefore delete the Criticism section in this article as irrelevant.Cloptonson (talk) 15:26, 4 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
