Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange

Rachel Chiesley, Lady Grange
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 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/May 12, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 00:21, 8 May 2013‎ (UTC)



Lady Grange (1679–1745) was the wife of James Erskine, Lord Grange, a Scottish lawyer with Jacobite sympathies. After 25 years of marriage and nine children, the Granges separated acrimoniously. When Lady Grange produced letters that she claimed were evidence of his treasonable plottings against the Hanoverian government in London, her husband had her kidnapped in 1732. She was incarcerated in various remote locations on the western seaboard of Scotland, including the Monach Isles, Skye and the distant islands of St Kilda. Lady Grange's father was convicted of murder and she is known to have had a violent temper; initially her absence seems to have caused little comment. News of her plight eventually reached her home town of Edinburgh however, and an unsuccessful rescue attempt was undertaken by her lawyer, Thomas Hope of Rankeillor. She died in captivity, after being in effect imprisoned for 13 years. Her life has been remembered in poetry, prose and a play.

postponed from before, FA more than a year: 1 pt, day of death: 1 pt (day of birth not known), woman in history --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:43, 6 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Support, provided the dead link in citation 18 is sorted out. Brianboulton (talk) 18:26, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Support historical stuff aye....Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Jolly interesting story, just the sort of thing we should bring to the limelight.--Smerus (talk) 05:47, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, for more women on the Main Page. :) &mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:54, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. - Per Cirt and Casliber. GabeMc  (talk&#124;contribs)  23:01, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, as above. Prioryman (talk) 14:11, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It would have been helpful if someone had noticed that the blurb is 973 characters including spaces, or about 20% shorter than standard (I aim for as close as possible to 1,200 characters including spaces, as the instructions say, to help keep the main page left/right balance as consistent as possible). Now I will have to spend time expanding the blurb to fit, which wastes my limited time.  Gerda, you ought to know better than this. BencherliteTalk 23:45, 7 May 2013 (UTC)