She was certainly well-known to the brilliant divorce and Whiggish barrister Lord Brougham, whose correspondence in the National Archives cites her to Samuel Rogers in a number of letters at the time of the proceedings in the early 1850s.

I have letters from Lady Susan Hamilton, now at Venice, which show all the stories of Walpole having left her to be pure fabrications, as I always believed they would turn out to be, he opined smugly with the ominous intent.

I saw the Duchess—her mother—to-day quite well.In 1857 William Ewart Gladstone was attacked for speaking out against violation of women when he became embroiled in the court action for the Lincoln-Oxford case held in Chancery.

The unhappy Lady Susan married again, to an untitled Belgian, a commoner named Jean Alexis Opdebeck from the city of Mechelen at Naples on 6 December 1862.

The exact state of his involvement is mysterious, but it was clear that felt by the late 1880s that he had lost touch with the younger generation whose appetites far exceeded his own.