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Madeleine Smith

Scottish socialite and alleged murderer (1835–1928)

This article is about the socialite and alleged murderer. For other people with this name, see Madeline Smith (disambiguation).

Madeleine Hamilton Smith (29 March 1835 – 12 April 1928) was a 19th-century Glasgowsocialite who was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857.

Background

Smith was the first child (of five) of an upper-middle-class family in Glasgow; her father, James Smith (1808–1863), was a wealthy architect,^[1] and her mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of leading neo-classical architect David Hamilton. She was born at the family home 81 Wellington Place in Glasgow.^[2]

In 1855 the family moved from India Street to 7 Blythswood Square, Glasgow, living in the lower half of a house owned by her maternal uncle, David Hamilton, a yarn merchant.^[3] The house stands at the crown of the major development led by William Harley^[4] on Blythswood Hill, and they also had a country property, "Rowaleyn", near Helensburgh.^[5

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A collection of thirteen letters from Madeleine Smith, the Glasgow socialite who was the accused in a sensational murder trial in Scotland in 1857, to her lover Pierre Emile L'Angelier.

About Madeleine Smith

Probably one of the most famous Not Proven cases in Scottish legal history is that of Madeleine Smith, accused in 1857 of murdering by poison, her lover Pierre Emile L'Angelier. Victorian society was scandalised, finding it difficult to cope with the outspoken correspondence quoted during the trial and with the astonishing coolness of the female defendant facing a capital charge.

Madeleine, daughter of a prominent Glasgow architect, James Smith of Blythswood Square, met L'Angelier in 1855. He was a ten-shillings-a-week clerk from Jersey and as such an impossible match for her. Their friendship developed into a clandestine love affair, openly revealed in her letters.

The relationship faltered when Madeleine, facing the reality of her future with L'Angelier, became publicly engaged to William Minnoch, a prosperous young merchant. She demanded the return of her le

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Madeline Smith

This article is about the English actress. For other people with this name, see Madeline Smith (disambiguation).

English actress (born 1949)

Madeline Smith
Born	(1949-08-02) 2 August 1949 (age 75) Hartfield, Wealden, East Sussex, England
Occupation(s)	Actress, model
Years active	1967–1986, 2011–present
Spouse	David Buck (m. 1975; died 1989)
Children	1

Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress. After working as a model in the late 1960s, she went on to appear in many television series and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s.

She is perhaps best known for playing Bond girl Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die (1973), but also had larger roles in the Hammer horror films The Vampire Lovers (1970), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Tam-Lin (1970), Theatre of Blood (1973) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) and comedy films including Up Pompeii (1971), Up the Front (1972) and Carry On M