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<b>Oliver Eaton Bodington</b> (1859–1936), <a href="Barrister" title="Barrister">barrister</a> at law of the <a href="Inner_Temple" title="Inner Temple">Inner Temple</a>, Licensee en Droit, <a href="University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris">University of Paris</a>, Member of the <a href="United_States" title="United States">United States</a> Federal Bar and President of the <a href="United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> <a href="Chamber_of_Commerce" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamber of Commerce">Chamber of Commerce</a>, was born March 6, 1859, in Kingsford, <a href="Staffordshire" title="Staffordshire">Staffordshire</a>, the son of George Fowler Bodington (September 22, 1829 – May 8, 1902), a <a href="Physician" title="Physician">physician</a>, and his wife Caroline Mary Eaton (born 1825). He was baptised on May 4, 1859, in Kenilworth, <a href="Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a>. Bodington attended the <a href="Giggleswick_School" title="Giggleswick School">Giggleswick School</a> and graduated from the <a href="University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a> (1878). In 1885 he lived at Ashford House, <a href="Kingswinford" title="Kingswinford">Kingswinford</a>, near <a href="Dudley" title="Dudley">Dudley</a>. He was known for a <a href="Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>-based legal practice and from his office at 6 Blve. Des Capuchins, he specialized in <a href="International_law" title="International law">international law</a> and practice concerning domicile, <a href="Marriage" title="Marriage">marriage</a>, <a href="Inheritance" title="Inheritance">inheritance</a>, <a href="Will_and_testament" title="Will and testament">wills</a> and foreign companies and firms doing business in Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Childhood_and_family">Childhood and family</h2></div>

<p>Bodington was the grandson of British physician <a href="George_Bodington" title="George Bodington">George Bodington</a> and one of eight children of George Fowler Bodington. G. F. Bodington was a British physician who rose to the position of Medical Superintendent of the Provincial Asylum for the <a href="Insane" class="mw-redirect" title="Insane">Insane</a> in <a href="New_Westminster" title="New Westminster">New Westminster</a>, <a href="British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a>. Oliver Bodington’s mother having died, his father remarried; his second wife, <a href="Alice_Brooke_Bodington" title="Alice Brooke Bodington">Alice Brooke Bodington</a> (1840-1897) became a leading researcher and writer in the field of <a href="Biology" title="Biology">biology</a> and <a href="Evolution" title="Evolution">evolution</a>. Alice Bodington was a frequent contributor to scholarly journals including “The American Naturalist”.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Dr. and Mrs. Bodington removed to <a href="Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a> in the year 1887. Others of the siblings of Oliver Bodington were a brother who lived at <a href="Plymouth%2C_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth, England">Plymouth, England</a>, a brother who lived in England in a place not specified, a brother who was a physician serving on the <a href="Empress" class="mw-redirect" title="Empress">Empress</a> <a href="Ocean_liner" title="Ocean liner">liners</a>, a sister Miss Bodington of Winnipeg, a sister Mrs. Hamilton, of <a href="Winnipeg" title="Winnipeg">Winnipeg</a> and two siblings who were at home at the time of Mrs. Bodington’s death in 1897: Winnie and an unnamed brother.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>Oliver Eaton Bodington numbered among his clients well-known British and American <a href="Expatriates" class="mw-redirect" title="Expatriates">expatriates</a> living in <a href="Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>. For instance, in a celebrated <a href="Law_suit" class="mw-redirect" title="Law suit">law suit</a> involving ownership of artistic works, Bodington represented the renowned artist <a href="James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler" class="mw-redirect" title="James Abbott McNeill Whistler">James Abbott McNeill Whistler</a> (see "<a href="Whistler's_Mother" title="Whistler's Mother">Whistler's Mother</a>"), whose portrait of Lady Eden (Sybil Frances Grey, later Lady Eden, the mother of <a href="Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Anthony Eden</a>), having been rejected by the Edens; Bodington witnessed and verified its over painting by the artist.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Bodington also conducted a successful sideline of helping monied American young ladies (those "lovely trans-Atlantic invaders" as <a href="Edith_Wharton" title="Edith Wharton">Edith Wharton</a> called them) find suitable titled European husbands in the pre-<a href="World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> marriage market.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Pursuant to these services, Bodington sued the American diplomat and <a href="Ambassador" title="Ambassador">Ambassador</a> <a href="John_George_Alexander_Leishman" title="John George Alexander Leishman">John George Alexander Leishman</a> regarding unpaid fees relating to the property of his son-in-law, Louis de Gontaut-Biron. The reported fee was $6000, of which $2000 was paid before the suit was brought. Mr. Leishman insisted that Bodington was his daughter Marthe, Comtess de Gontaut-Biron’s lawyer, not his own.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Among his more celebrated cases, Bodington represented "Mrs. Marie Van Rensimer Barnes" in 1912, in the aftermath of a violent altercation in a Paris apartment that led to shots being fired by herself and her presumed lover, <a href="Walther_von_Mumm" title="Walther von Mumm">Walther von Mumm</a> (AKA Walter de <a href="Mumm" class="mw-redirect" title="Mumm">Mumm</a>), of the well-known <a href="Wine" title="Wine">wine</a> merchant family. Dubbed the "<a href="Champagne_(wine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Champagne (wine)">champagne</a> king" of <a href="Rheims" class="mw-redirect" title="Rheims">Rheims</a>, Baron von Mumm, a pioneer <a href="Aviator" class="mw-redirect" title="Aviator">aviator</a> and future <a href="Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic Games</a> bobsledder (1932, <a href="1932_Winter_Olympics" title="1932 Winter Olympics">Lake Placid</a>), was wounded seriously, but refused to press charges. Immediately following the shooting, Mrs. Barnes (an alias, her real name being Mary Cleveland Rensimer) fled to <a href="London" title="London">London</a>'s <a href="Carlton_Hotel%2C_London" title="Carlton Hotel, London">Carlton Hotel</a>. She claimed to be the divorced wife of a <a href="Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a> physician, who, when contacted, revealed that he had never been married to Miss Rensimer and that she had in fact stalked him mercilessly in the year 1900.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mary Jane Cleveland Van Rensimer, (born Riegelsville, PA 30 April 1888, died Reuil-Malmaison 12 August 1935), eventually became the second wife of Boris Aleksandrovich, Prince Golitsyn, (born 23 June 1880, Sima, Valdmiri, Russia; died 28 July 1947). They were married in Berlin on 23 Apr 1921 but divorced not long thereafter.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div>

<p>Bodington was a fixture at the bridge tables in <a href="Monte_Carlo" title="Monte Carlo">Monte Carlo</a> and an <a href="Aficionado" class="mw-redirect" title="Aficionado">aficionado</a> of <a href="France" title="France">French</a> <a href="Ecclesiastical_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecclesiastical architecture">ecclesiastical architecture</a>. These avocations he translated into books:

</p><p>“Thirty Seasons at Monte Carlo” (1924), "<a href="Bridge_(card_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridge (card game)">Bridge (card game)</a> Wisdom for Beginners and Others" (1933) and “The Romance Churches of France” (1925). He was the author of books and articles relating to his profession, including "The French Law of Marriage" (1895), as well as the book “'Quiseen' and Other Thoughts” (1924).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Oliver Bodington married Mary Chapman Redner (Feb. 16, 1868 - April 22, 1920) a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Bodingtons were the parents of three sons: John (b. 1890), George (b. 1893) and Nicholas (b. 1904).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Bodington was a decorated <a href="World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> hero. <a href="Nicholas_Bodington" class="mw-redirect" title="Nicholas Bodington">Nicholas Bodington</a> was a noted member of the British espionage service during World War II.

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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Men-at-the-Bar, by Joseph Foster, 1885; page 42</span>

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<li id="cite_note-autogenerated1-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-autogenerated1_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">"The American Naturalist", 1897</span>

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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Letter from James McNeill Whistler to Bodington. 8 Fitzroy Street, [London], 12 November 1901.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See also: Whistler, James McNeill, "Eden versus Whistler: The Baronet and the Butterfly. A Valentine with a Verdict", Paris and New York, 1899.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"New York Times", November 13, 1913</span>

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<li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"New York Times"</span>

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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"New York Times" 12/15/1912; 12/17/1912 and 5/8/1913</span>

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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://Alibris.com">Alibris: Used Books, Used Textbooks, Rare & Out-of-Print Books</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.boddington-family.org">http://www.boddington-family.org</a> </span>

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