Dorothy Montagu, Countess Of Sandwich
Dorothy Montagu, Countess of Sandwich (22 March 1716/17 – 17 July 1797), formerly The Hon. Dorothy Fane, was a British peeress and wife of the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Family and marriage Dorthy was born on 22 March 1717, the third surviving daughter of Charles Fane, 1st Viscount Fane (1676–1744) by his wife Mary (1686–1762) daughter of the envoy Hon. Alexander Stanhope, FRS. Mary was the sister of soldier-statesman James, 1st Earl Stanhope (1673–1721), and was one of the six original Maids of Honour to Queen Anne, appointed 4 June 1702. Dorothy was baptised on 27 April 1717 at St. Giles in the Fields. On 14 March 1741, shortly before her 24th birthday, she married at St James's John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich. In a letter to Horace Walpole dated 23 December 1742, the British Resident in Florence, Horace Mann, who had been her brother's charge d'affairs when he held the post, describes the birth of her first son, who died soon after: 'your friend Lady Sandwich has got ...
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