Jane Stuart-Wortley or Jane Thompson; Jane Lawley (5 December 1820 – 4 February 1900) was an English philanthropist.
Life
Stuart-Wortley was born in
York
York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...
in 1820 when her surname was Thompson. Her family adopted the surname Lawley when her father became
Lord Wenlock
Baron Wenlock is a title that has been created three times, once in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1461 when the soldier Sir John Wenlock was summoned to Parliament as Lord Wen ...
.
[Jane Stuart Wortley]
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Retrieved 31 January 2016
In 1846 she married
James Stuart-Wortley.
They had four sons and five daughters; two of their sons died in childhood:
Five daughters of Jane Stuart-Wortley
*Mary Caroline Stuart-Wortley (10 May 1848 – 18 April 1941), married in London on 30 December 1880
Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace
*
Archibald John Stuart-Wortley (27 May 1849 – 11 October 1905), married in 1883 Eleanor Edith Bromley (d. 1939)
*
Charles Beilby Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Stuart of Wortley (15 September 1851 – 24 April 1926)
*Margaret Jane Stuart-Wortley (d. 6 October 1937), married on 8 May 1877 Sir
Reginald Talbot, son of
Henry Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury
*Blanche Georgina Stuart-Wortley (d. 7 July 1931), married on 26 February 1895 Frederick Firebrace (d. 1917)
*
Caroline Susan Theodora Stuart-Wortley (d. 7 August 1940), married on 25 June 1881
Norman Grosvenor, son of
Baron Ebury
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*Katharine Sarah Stuart-Wortley (d. 27 March 1943), married on 1 October 1883 Gen. Sir
Neville Lyttelton
General The Honourable Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, (28 October 1845 – 6 July 1931) was a British Army officer from the Lyttelton family who served against the Fenian Raids, and in the Anglo-Egyptian War, the Mahdist War and the Second Boer W ...
, son of
Baron Lyttelton
In 1846, her husband was sworn in as a
Privy Counsellor. In 1852 she became a woman of influence when she inherited a considerable fortune from her father. Her husband held office as
Solicitor General for England and Wales under
Lord Palmerston from 1856 until May 1857. He had to resign in 1858 due to spinal injuries sustained in a riding accident. He and Jane left London to live at Upper Sheen House near
Mortlake where she cared for him. He became worse in 1869 and they moved back to London. In London Jane was able to delegate the care of James at least in part to their daughters.
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Jane was now more available to find her own interests. She took a great interest in schemes in London that were aimed at improving the lot of the poor. She supported the ''East London Nursing Association''][ which since 1868 had supplied a network of ]District Nurse
District Nurses work manage care within the community and lead teams of community nurses and support workers. The role requires registered nurses to take a NMC approved specialist practitioner course. Duties generally include visiting house-bound ...
s in east London. Each parish supplied funds and lodging for their nurse and matrons would ensure supervision.
Legacy
A memorial fund in her name was created in 1901 by her children that benefited a nursing charity.
References
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1820 births
1900 deaths
Daughters of barons
People from York
19th-century English women
19th-century English people
19th-century British philanthropists
