Frances Hales (died 3 February 1769), later Countess of Lichfield, was an English aristocrat and philanthropist.G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant,'' new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 103. She was the daughter of Sir John Hales, 4th Bt, and grew up at

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near

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, Kent. She married

George Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield George Henry Lee I, 2nd Earl of Lichfield (1690–1743) was a younger son of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield and his wife Charlotte Fitzroy, an illegitimate daughter of Charles II by his mistress, the celebrated courtesan Barbara Vil ...

, at a private ceremony before May 1718. They had nine children together: # Lady Charlotte Lee (d. 11 Jun 1794), who married

Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon Henry Dillon, 11th Viscount Dillon (1705–1787) was an Irish peer and a soldier in French service. He was the colonel proprietor of Dillon's Regiment, an Irish regiment of foot in French service, in 1741–1744 and again in 1747–1767. In the ...

# Edward Henry Lee (d. 1742) # Charles Henry Lee (d. 1740) # Lady Mary Lee # George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (21 May 1718 – 19 Sep 1772) # Lady Frances Lee (21 Jan 1721 – 29 Jan 1761), who is thought to have married

Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury Henry Hyde, Viscount Cornbury (28 November 1710 – 28 May 1753), styled Viscount Hyde from 1711 until 1723 and Viscount Cornbury thereafter, also 5th Baron Hyde in his own right, was a British author and politician who sat in the House of Common ...

# Frances Lee (Nov 1721 - 1723), who died in infancy # Lady Henrietta Lee (1726 - 30 Apr 1752), who married John Bellew, 4th Baron Bellew of Duleek # Lady Anne Lee (c. 1731 - 9 Dec 1802), who married Hugh Clifford, 4th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, and had children She was one of the

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to Thomas Coram's petition to King George II to establish the

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, which she signed on 27 April 1730. She died on 3 February 1769.

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Daughters of baronets

Lichfield Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west of B ...

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