James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey (3 Jul 1674–21 January 1702), succeeded to his Earldom on the death of his father,

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in 1690, the same year in which he matriculated at

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. His mother was Lady Elizabeth Manners, daughter of

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. In October 1699 he married Lady Catherine Darnley, illegitimate daughter of

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. They had a daughter, Lady Catherine Annesley, who married William Phipps and was an ancestress of the Baron Mulgrave. The couple were legally separated in June 1701, on the grounds of Anglesey's cruelty to his wife. The earl, already suffering from consumption, died in the following January.

Ancestry of Lady Catherine Annesley

References

* Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, Baltimore, 1978 1670 births 1702 deaths 3

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