On the eve of her wedding to a "Hell", called Clotworthy Skeffington, she eloped with a "Limbo", Edward Wortley Montagu, a member of Parliament and colliery owner.In 1716, he was sent to Constantinople as ambassador to the Ottoman empire.
His widowed mother and uncles told him to kill the 17-year-old after she eloped with her boyfriend, staining the family's honour.
The couple eloped to Gibraltar, where a court allowed the marriage.
So young lovers eloped northwards, and by the 1850s the marriage industry at Gretna, the first stagecoach post across the border, was in full swing.
They understand people's married lives, and that is appreciated".The refugees from any future schism could prove far more numerous than the trickle who have eloped to Rome to date, however.
SHORTLY after they eloped and married, Manoj and Babli Banwala, childhood sweethearts from India's northern state of Haryana, were dragged from a bus by some of her male relatives, taken to a field near their village of Karora and murdered.
He recalls that in 1999 a handful of fundamentalist senators so intimidated their colleagues that only four voted for a resolution condemning honour killings of women who had eloped.
She eloped with her high-school sweetheart.
In Othello Desdemona is the only daughter of Brabantio, an aging senator of Venice, who dies heartbroken because his daughter has eloped with a dark-skinned man who is her senior by many years and is of another culture.
Late in August 1811, Shelley eloped with Harriet Westbrook, the younger daughter of a London tavern owner; by marrying her, he betrayed the acquisitive plans of his grandfather and father, who tried to starve him into submission but only drove the strong-willed youth to rebel against the established order.
Shaw had recently eloped with Jordan's daughter, and he ends up murdering both of them.
