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Jane Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Sheridan; 5 November 1809 – 14 December 1884), was the wife of Edward, Duke of Somerset.
Jane Georgiana Seymour, Duchess of Somerset (née Sheridan; 5 November 1809 – 14 December 1884), was the wife of Edward, Duke of Somerset.
Life
Jane Georgiana Sheridan was the third daughter ofThomas Sheridan Thomas Sheridan may refer to:
*Thomas Sheridan (divine) (1687–1738), Anglican divine
*Thomas Sheridan (actor) (1719–1788), Irish actor and teacher of elocution
*Thomas Sheridan (soldier) (1775–1817/18)
*Thomas B. Sheridan (born 1931), America ...
and his wife the novelist Caroline Callander, daughter of Sir James Callander of Craigforth and Ardkinglas. She was the younger sister of Helen Lady Dufferin, songwriter, composer, poet, and author, and Caroline Norton, society beauty, feminist, social reformer, and author. Georgiana, Helen, and Caroline were the granddaughters of Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a politician, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as '' The Rivals'', '' The ...
. Known for her loveliness, the Duchess was chosen to be the "Queen of Beauty" at the Eglinton Tournament Eglinton can refer to:
People
* Earl of Eglinton, a title in the Peerage of Scotland
* Geoffrey Eglinton (1927–2016), British chemist
*Timothy Eglinton, a British biogeoscientist
* William Eglinton (1857–1933), a British spiritualist medium a ...
in 1839.
She married Edward, Duke of Somerset (then Lord Seymour) on the 10th of June 1830, when he was twenty-five and she was twenty. They had two sons and three daughters:
* Lady Jane Hermione Seymour (1 January 1832 – 1909), married Sir Frederick Graham (1820 – 1888), and had issue (the Countess of Verulam and Duchess of Montrose)
*Lady Ulrica Frederica Jane Seymour (12 January 1833 – 1916), married Lord Henry Thynne
Lord Henry Frederick Thynne PC DL (2 August 1832 – 28 January 1904) was a British Conservative politician. He served under Benjamin Disraeli as Treasurer of the Household between 1875 and 1880.
Background
Thynne was the second son of ...
(1832 - 1904)
* Edward Adolphus Ferdinand, Earl St. Maur (17 July 1835 – 1869), had two illegitimate children by his maid. The son Harold
Harold may refer to:
People
* Harold (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name
* Harold (surname), surname in the English language
* András Arató, known in meme culture as "Hide the Pain Harold"
Arts a ...
claimed he was legitimate and, after his father's death, declared himself heir to the Dukedom of Somerset
*Lord Edward Percy Seymour (19 August 1841 – 1865), diplomat, unmarried and without issue; died in India after being mauled by a bearThe Complete Peerage vol.XIIpI, p.87, note b.
*Lady Helen Guendolen Seymour (1846 – 1910), married Sir John Ramsden (1831 – 1914)
The Duchess was survived by her husband by less than a year. She is interred at Gerrard's Cross
Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north bordering villages of Fulmer, Hedgerley, Iver Heath a ...
, Buckinghamshire.
References
1809 births 1884 deaths English duchesses by marriage Georgiana {{England-duke-stub