Editing Lillie Langtry (section)

==American citizenship and divorce==
In 1888, Langtry became a property owner in the United States when she and Frederick Gebhard purchased adjoining ranches in [[Lake County, California]]. She established a [[winery]] with an area of {{convert|4200|acre|km2|0}} in [[Guenoc Valley AVA|Guenoc Valley]], producing red wine.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stoneberg|first=David|date=7 September 2020|title=Massive resort development planned in southern Lake County|url=https://napavalleyregister.com/community/star/news/massive-resort-development-planned-in-southern-lake-county/article_84bee6aa-9876-5b67-b8e5-21ffea74024f.amp.html|access-date=3 October 2020|work=[[Napa Valley Register]]}}</ref> She sold it in 1906. Bearing the Langtry Farms name, the winery and vineyard are still in operation in [[Middletown, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://langtryfarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Life-of-Lillie-Langtry.pdf|title=The Life of Lillie Langtry|work=Langtry Farms|access-date=22 March 2017|archive-date=26 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141126205530/http://langtryfarms.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Life-of-Lillie-Langtry.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

During her travels in the United States, Langtry became an [[US citizenship|American citizen]] and on 13 May 1897, divorced her husband Edward in [[Lakeport, California]]. Her ownership of land in America was introduced in evidence at her divorce to help demonstrate to the judge that she was a citizen of the country.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172400279|title=Mrs. Langtry's Divorce.|newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Brisbane)|The Telegraph]]|issue=7700|location=Brisbane|date=1 July 1897|access-date=6 April 2016|page=2|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In June of that year Edward Langtry issued a statement giving his side of the story, which was published in the ''New York Journal.''<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126248161|title=THE JERSEY LILY|newspaper=[[The Sunday Times (Sydney)|The Sunday Times]]|issue=604|location=Sydney|date=25 July 1897|access-date=6 April 2016|page=9|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Edward died a few months later in [[Countess of Chester Hospital|Chester Asylum]], after being found by police in a demented condition at [[Crewe railway station]].  His death was probably the result of a brain haemorrhage after a fall during a steamer crossing from Belfast to Liverpool. He was buried in [[Overleigh Cemetery]]; a verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162383324|title=Mr Edward Langtry|newspaper=[[Adelaide Observer]]|volume=LIV|issue=2,925|date=23 October 1897|access-date=6 April 2016|page=6|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>Beatty, ''op. cit''., p. 302.</ref><ref>''New York Times'', 17 October 1897.</ref> A letter of condolence later written by Langtry to another widow reads in part, "I too have lost a husband, but alas! it was no great loss."<ref>Letter in the ''Curtis Theatre Collection'', University of Pittsburgh.</ref>

Langtry continued to have involvement with her husband's Irish properties after his death. These were compulsorily purchased from her in 1928 under the [[Irish Land Commission#Northern Ireland|Northern Ireland Land Act]], 1925. This was passed after the [[Partition of Ireland]], with the purpose of transferring certain lands from owners to tenants.<ref>{{cite web|title=LAND PURCHASE COMMISSION, NORTHERN IRELAND LAND ACT, 1925|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/369/page/735/data.pdf|website=thegazette.co.uk/Belfast|publisher=The Gazette|access-date=6 April 2016|ref=Belfast Gazette|date=20 July 1928|page=735}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Estate of Lady Lily de Bathe (Widow), Representative of Edward Langtry, Deceased|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast/issue/377/page/1007|website=www.thegazette.co.uk/Belfast|publisher=The Gazette|access-date=6 April 2016|ref=Belfast Gazette|date=14 September 1928|page=1007}}</ref>