The 3rd Duke of Sutherland left his fortune to his second wife, and she went to Holloway prison for contempt

George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland, owned Dunrobin, Trentham and Stafford House. His first wife Anne died on 25 November 1888. On 4 March 1889 he married Mary Caroline Blair, widow of Arthur Kindersley Blair, the Duke's former land agent^†. The Duke died at Dunrobin on 22 September 1892 and was buried at Trentham. His last will left most of his fortune to his widow^†. His son Cromartie, the 4th Duke, contested it. During the proceedings she burned a letter from the estate papers^†. The court held her in contempt and sentenced her to six weeks in Holloway Prison. On 27 April 1893 three MPs questioned the Home Secretary, H. H. Asquith, about her cell. One said it was fitted with plush, carpets, mirrors and flowers and that she arrived with eight boxes. Asquith replied that she had three boxes, her own furniture under the 1878 rules for misdemeanants of the first division, and two visits. In June 1894 the family settled; one account puts her payment at £750,000^†. She married Sir Albert Rollit on 12 November 1896, and they separated in 1904. With the settlement she built Carbisdale Castle in Ross-shire, just outside Sutherland, between 1906 and 1917^†. Its clock tower has faces on three sides; the side facing Sutherland is blank^†. She died in 1912^†. Carbisdale was a youth hostel from 1945 to 2011 and was on the market in June 2025 at £3.5 million^†.