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Georgiana Howard | |
|---|---|
| Countess of Burlington | |
| Born | Lady Blanche Georgiana Howard 11 January 1812 |
| Died | 27 April 1840 (aged 28) Westhill Park near Wantage, Oxfordshire |
| Spouse(s) | William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire |
| Issue | Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire Lord Frederick Cavendish Lord Edward Cavendish Lady Louisa Caroline Egerton |
| Father | George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle |
| Mother | Lady Georgiana Cavendish |
Blanche Cavendish, Countess of Burlington (née Howard; 11 January 1812 – 27 April 1840) was an English peeress.
Early life and family
editLady Blanche Georgiana Howard was born on 11 January 1812, the fourth daughter of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle and his wife, Lady Georgiana Cavendish.[1][2]
In February 1816, Blanche's maternal aunt Harriet described the young girl in a letter to her sister, writing that Blanche is "too great a darling; she is shy in general, and I suppose it is from some likeness in voice and manner that she forgets with me that I am not you, calls me Mama, and is full of jokes and animation. How pretty she is!"[3]
Marriage and issue
editOn 6 August 1829, she married William Cavendish, a grandson of George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington.[1][2]
They had five children:[4]
- William, Lord Cavendish (8 December 1831 – 15 May 1834)
- Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (23 July 1833 – 24 March 1908)
- Lady Louisa Caroline Cavendish (16 March 1835 – ); married Admiral Francis Egerton in 1865
- Lord Frederick Cavendish (30 November 1836 – 6 May 1882)
- Lord Edward Cavendish (28 January 1838 – 18 May 1891)
Cavendish died on 27 April 1840, at the age of twenty-eight.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ a b Thompson 2004.
- ^ a b Lodge 1867, p. 101.
- ^ Leveson-Gower 1894, pp. 85–86.
- ^ Lodge 1867, p. 179.
- ^ Lodge 1867, pp. 101, 179.
- ^ Hattersley 2013, p. 335.
- ^ Cannadine 1994.
- ^ Lees-Milne 1998.
Works cited
- Cannadine, David (1994). Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300059816.
- Hattersley, Roy (2013). The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation. Random House. ISBN 978-0701186241.
- Lees-Milne, James (1998). The Bachelor Duke: 6th Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0719556005.
- Leveson-Gower, Harriet (1894). Leveson-Gower, F. (ed.). Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville, 1810–1845, Volume 1. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Lodge, Edmund (1867). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Hurst & Blackett Publishers.
- Thompson, F. M. L. (2004). "Cavendish, William, seventh duke of Devonshire (1808–1891), landowner and industrialist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4950. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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