A town will remember one of its most infamous residents.

Kitty O'Shea was the controversial wife of 19th Century Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell and is buried in Littlehampton Cemetery.

The Parnell Society will visit her grave next month and lay a plaque.

Members of Littlehampton Town Council will hold a reception at the Manor House for the society to mark the occasion.

Some say when Parnell took O'Shea as his mistress, it ruined his political career because puritanical Victorians turned against him.

He was leader of the Irish Party, pressing for Home Rule. She was the wife of one of his colleagues.

The Press called him the most infamous adulterer of the 19th Century and O'Shea was branded a proved British prostitute.

The couple married in Steyning in June, 1891, and for a while lived in Kingsway, Hove, but Parnell died a few months later, on October 6, and was buried in Dublin.

O'Shea died in 1921 at the age of 75.