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WC Wentworth should have taken his own advice

On 21 September 1824, five months after the pie-loving John Payne dumped his much younger fiance Sarah Cox to quickly marry a wealthy widow, 19-year old Sarah brought a breach of promise case against him in the New South Wales courts.

But the same time that the court was debating Sarah’s reputation and how it affected her prospects of finding another suitor, Sarah was pregnant — to her barrister, William Charles Wentworth.

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