[2] Anne Crichton-Stuart was the third daughter of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, and his wife Mary.
[4] Before and during her marriage, there is evidence of Lady Warkworth's friendship with Laurence Sterne, and she is thought to be the woman to whom he refers in his diary as "Sheba".
Servants and acquaintances later testified that Percy had not visited his wife since 1771.
[5][4] In 1779, Percy applied to the House of Lords for a divorce, on the grounds that his wife had committed adultery with a Mr Bird while he was abroad.
[6] Servants were called to testify to Lady Percy's relationship with a Mr Bird of Coventry, whom she had met at Southampton while visiting her sister, Lady Augusta Corbett.