Charles Delauney Bravo was a British lawyer who was fatally poisoned with antimony in 1876.
10 Facts About Charles Bravo
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Charles Bravo was born Charles Delauney Turner in St Pancras, London, and baptised in Saint Helier, Jersey, in 1852.
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Charles Bravo was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and the Middle Temple, and was called to the bar in 1870.
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Charles Bravo herself had had an extramarital affair with the much older Dr James Manby Gully, a fashionable society doctor who was married at the time, and she had fallen out of favour with her family and society.
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Florence was wealthier than Charles Bravo, and had opted from the start to hold onto her own money, an option only recently provided by the Married Women's Property Act 1870.
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The poisoning of Charles Bravo occurred four months into the marriage.
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Charles Bravo's death was drawn out, lasting from two to three days, and painful.
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One hypothesis is that Charles Bravo was slowly poisoning his wife with small cumulative doses of antimony in the form of tartar emetic, which explains the chronic illness that she suffered from since shortly after their marriage.
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Charles Bravo died at 33 of alcohol poisoning two years later on Tuesday 24 September 1878.
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Charles Bravo is buried in the churchyard at Buscot near her father's home Buscot Park in Berkshire, now part of Oxfordshire.