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Louisa Mary Milman, 15th Baroness Berkeley (née Berkeley; pronounced Barkley; 28 May 1840 – 10 December 1899) was an English peeress. In 1893, she succeeded as Baroness Berkeley following the death of her uncle Thomas Berkeley, 6th Earl of Berkeley
Berkeley was born on Mansfield Street in Marylebone,[1] the only child of the politician Hon. Craven Berkeley (1805–1855), son of the 5th Earl of Berkeley, and Augusta Janet Talbot (née Jones or Isaacson), the illegitimate daughter of Sir Horace St Paul, 1st Baronet, and widow of Hon. George Henry Talbot (1798–1839). Her parents had married in November 1839 in the Anglican church.
ia. i April, 1872, Ma]. -Gen. Gustavus Hamilton Lock wood Milman, R.A., son of the late Lieut. -Gen. Francis Miles Milnian, Coldstream gis, (and Maria Margaretta, his wife, sister of Dt Lord Tredegar , and grandson of Sir Francis Milman, 1st Bart, of Levatoo («> tutt >, and ■/. 10 Dec. lsv9, leaving an only child,
Eva Mabt Fitxkabdismje, present Babo.ness Bebeelet. As the neir-Kf ueral of Sir James de Berkeley, knt., on whom was conferred the barony of Berkeley in 1421, this lady was, l.y :clter» l>atent under the Great Seal, 12 June, 1&93, declared to have succeeded to that dignity, on the death of ber uncle, ihotuae Moreton FitzHardinge, 6th Earl of Berkeley.
Augusta Talbot
Married secondly Charlotte, daughter of General Denzil Onslow, in 1845. Issue with his first wife:
Augusta, daughter of Sir Horace St Paul, 1st Baronet and widow of George Henry Talbot, in 1839. They had one daughter
Mary Cole (who also passed under the name of Tudor), the daughter of a local publican and butcher, had seven sons and five daughters, but the disputed date of their marriage prevented their elder sons from succeeding as Earl of Berkeley and Baron Berkeley. They asserted that the marriage had taken place on 30 March 1785, but the earliest ceremony of which there is incontrovertible proof was a wedding in Lambeth Church, Surrey, on 16 May 1796, at which date she was pregnant with their seventh child
his fifth but first legitimate son, Thomas Morton Fitzhardinge Berkeley (1796–1882), but were never used by him and he did not take his seat in the House of Lords. Per his father's will, he would have lost his small inheritance had he disputed his eldest brother's claim to the titles
Married Gustavus Hamilton Lockwood Milman, grandson of Sir Francis Milman, 1st Baronet
She was succeeded by her only daughter Eva Mary Fitzhardinge, MBE, 16th Baroness Berkeley. 4 March 1875 4 December 1964 Colombo. Married Lt Col Frank Wigram Foley, DSO, CB, CBE. [3]
References
edit- ^ "Births". Bristol Mercury. 6 June 1840. p. 8. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
- ^ Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of peerage, baronetage and knightage. London: Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. pp. 230–232. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
- ^ "Deaths". The Genealogical Magazine. III. Elliot Stock: 422. May 1899 – April 1900. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
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